The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 24, sentence 87
But as the days went by and Balatama did not return they became alarmed, fearing that he was dead.
Who acts: days, Balatama · What happens: go by, not return, alarm, fear, be · To what, where: courtiers · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (days, Balatama), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 return | cc |
| 2 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 went | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 days | det |
| 4 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 went | nsubj |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 return | advcl |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 5 went | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 Balatama | cc |
| 8 | Balatama | Balatama | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 went | conj |
| 9 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 return | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 return | advmod |
| 11 | return | return | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 alarmed | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 alarmed | aux:pass |
| 14 | alarmed | alarm | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 return | ccomp |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 fearing | punct |
| 16 | fearing | fear | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 return | advcl |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 dead | mark |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 dead | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 dead | cop |
| 20 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 fearing | ccomp |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 return | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go by | past | the days | Balatama conj | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not return | past · do-support | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | alarm | past · passive | courtiers = courtier | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | fear | gerund | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 5 | is | past | Balatama | dead property | tree rules |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Project Gutenberg book 65965 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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