The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 24, sentence 91
But all were disappointed that they could go no farther, and one said, “Why do we not go on?
Who acts: all, Spaniards, one, we · What happens: be, go, say, not go on · 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 (all, Spaniards, one, we), 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 | _ | 4 disappointed | cc |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 disappointed | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 disappointed | cop |
| 4 | disappointed | disappointed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 go | mark |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 go | nsubj |
| 7 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 go | aux |
| 8 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 disappointed | advcl |
| 9 | no | no | ADV | _ | 10 farther | advmod |
| 10 | farther | far | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 8 go | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 said | cc |
| 13 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 said | nsubj |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 disappointed | parataxis |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 go | punct |
| 16 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 go | punct |
| 17 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 21 go | advmod |
| 18 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 go | aux |
| 19 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 go | nsubj |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 go | advmod |
| 21 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 said | ccomp |
| 22 | on | on | ADV | _ | 21 go | advmod |
| 23 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 disappointed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | all | disappointed property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go | could | Spaniards = spaniard | far property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: ask | past | one | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | not go on in a quote | present · do-support | we | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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