The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 25, sentence 54
When Pei-Hang awoke, he looked for the red cord around his foot, but he saw neither this nor the fair maiden.
Who acts: Pei · What happens: awake, look, see · To what, where: this
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 (Pei), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 awoke | advmod |
| 2 | Pei | Pei | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 awoke | nsubj |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 Pei | punct |
| 4 | Hang | Hang | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Pei | flat |
| 5 | awoke | awake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 looked | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 awoke | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 looked | nsubj |
| 8 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 cord | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 cord | det |
| 11 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 cord | amod |
| 12 | cord | cord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 looked | obl |
| 13 | around | around | ADP | _ | 15 foot | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 foot | nmod:poss |
| 15 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 cord | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 saw | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 saw | cc |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 saw | nsubj |
| 19 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 looked | parataxis |
| 20 | neither | neither | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 21 this | cc:preconj |
| 21 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 saw | obj |
| 22 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 25 maiden | cc |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 maiden | det |
| 24 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 maiden | amod |
| 25 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 saw | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | awake | past | Pei | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | look | past | Pei | for the red cord around Pei's foot | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for cord=Theme | ||||
| 3 | see | past | Pei | this | the fair maiden conj | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus |
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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