The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 25, sentence 37

It was very hot, and Pei-Hang intended to start in the cool of the early morning, but he sat so long over his books the night before his journey that he wakened late, and when he opened his eyes the sun was blazing down upon the streets, making the town like a furnace.

Who acts: warship, Pei Hang, Hang, sun · What happens: be, intend, start, sit, waken, open · To what, where: cool, books, eyes, streets, town

This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (warship, Pei Hang, Hang, sun), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hot	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 hot	cop
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 hot	advmod
4	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 intended	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 intended	cc
7	Pei	Pei	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Hang	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 Pei	punct
9	Hang	Hang	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 intended	nsubj
10	intended	intend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 hot	parataxis
11	to	to	PART	_	12 start	mark
12	start	start	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 intended	xcomp
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 cool	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 cool	det
15	cool	cool	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 start	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	19 morning	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 morning	det
18	early	early	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 morning	amod
19	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 cool	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 sat	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 sat	cc
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 sat	nsubj
23	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 intended	conj
24	so	so	ADV	_	25 long	advmod
25	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	23 sat	advmod
26	over	over	ADP	_	28 books	case
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 books	nmod:poss
28	books	book	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 sat	obl
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 night	det
30	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 sat	obl:unmarked
31	before	before	ADP	_	33 journey	case
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 journey	nmod:poss
33	journey	journey	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 sat	obl
34	that	that	SCONJ	_	36 wakened	mark
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 wakened	nsubj
36	wakened	waken	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 sat	advcl
37	late	late	ADV	Degree=Pos	36 wakened	advmod
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 opened	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 opened	cc
40	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	42 opened	advmod
41	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 opened	nsubj
42	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 hot	parataxis
43	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 eyes	nmod:poss
44	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 opened	obj
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 sun	det
46	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 blazing	nsubj
47	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	48 blazing	aux
48	blazing	blaze	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	42 opened	advcl
49	down	down	ADV	_	48 blazing	advmod
50	upon	upon	ADP	_	52 streets	case
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 streets	det
52	streets	street	NOUN	Number=Plur	48 blazing	obl
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 making	punct
54	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	48 blazing	conj
55	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	56 town	det
56	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 making	obj
57	like	like	ADP	_	59 furnace	case
58	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	59 furnace	det
59	furnace	furnace	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 making	obl
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 hot	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	warship				hot property	tree rules
2	intend	past	Pei Hang					vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	start not said to happen	to-infinitive	Pei Hang not said here		the cool of the early morning			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
4	sit	past	Hang		Hang's books	before Hang's journey; night	long property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over book=Location
5	waken	past	Hang				late property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
6	open	past	Hang	Hang's eyes				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location eye=Theme
7	blaze down	past · progressive	the sun		the streets		down property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon street=Location
8	make	gerund	the sun not said here	the town			like a furnace	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset town=Product
9	journey		Hang					nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent

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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The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 25, sentence 37