The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 25, sentence 92
On his way to Mount Sumi he passed through the town in which his parents lived, and when he saw them, he told them everything that had happened to him since he left Chang-ngan.
Who acts: Pei, parents · What happens: pass, live, see, tell, happen, leave · To what, where: way, town, parents, everything, Pei, Chang ngan · Speech: someone speaks here
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, parents), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 way | case |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 way | nmod:poss |
| 3 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 passed | obl |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 Mount | case |
| 5 | Mount | Mount | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 way | nmod |
| 6 | Sumi | Sumi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Mount | flat |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 passed | nsubj |
| 8 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | through | through | ADP | _ | 11 town | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 town | det |
| 11 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 passed | obl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 which | case |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 lived | obl |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 parents | nmod:poss |
| 15 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 lived | nsubj |
| 16 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 town | acl:relcl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 told | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 told | cc |
| 19 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 21 saw | advmod |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 saw | nsubj |
| 21 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 told | advcl |
| 22 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 saw | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 saw | punct |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 told | nsubj |
| 25 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 passed | conj |
| 26 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 told | iobj |
| 27 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 25 told | obj |
| 28 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 happened | nsubj |
| 29 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 happened | aux |
| 30 | happened | happen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 27 everything | acl:relcl |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 him | case |
| 32 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 happened | obl |
| 33 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 35 left | mark |
| 34 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 left | nsubj |
| 35 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 told | advcl |
| 36 | Chang | Chang | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 ngan | compound |
| 37 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 38 ngan | punct |
| 38 | ngan | ngan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 left | obj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | past | Pei | Pei's way to Mount | through the town | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on way=Location | |||
| 2 | live | past | Pei's parents | the town | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in which=Location | ||||
| 3 | see | past | Pei | parents = parent | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | past | Pei | everything | parents = parent | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient everything=Topic | |||
| 5 | happen | past · perfect | Pei | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | leave | past | Pei | Chang ngan | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ngan=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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