The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 26, sentence 101
He was sure that now he would find the master gardener, and be able to express his gratitude to him for the marvels he had seen and studied.
Who acts: youth · What happens: be, find, express, see, study · To what, where: master gardener, gratitude, youth, marvels
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youth), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sure | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sure | cop |
| 3 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 find | mark |
| 5 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 find | advmod |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 find | nsubj |
| 7 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 find | aux |
| 8 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 sure | ccomp |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 gardener | det |
| 10 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 gardener | compound |
| 11 | gardener | gardener | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 find | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 able | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 able | cc |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 able | cop |
| 15 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 sure | conj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 express | mark |
| 17 | express | express | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 able | xcomp |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 gratitude | nmod:poss |
| 19 | gratitude | gratitude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 express | obj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 him | case |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 express | obl |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 marvels | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 marvels | det |
| 24 | marvels | marvel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 express | obl |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 seen | nsubj |
| 26 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 seen | aux |
| 27 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 24 marvels | acl:relcl |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 studied | cc |
| 29 | studied | study | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 27 seen | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sure | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | youth | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | find | would | youth | the master gardener | now | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gardener=Topic | |||
| 3 | is | infinitive | youth not said here | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | express | to-infinitive | youth not said here | youth's gratitude | youth | for the marvels | vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent gratitude=Theme to he=Recipient | ||
| 5 | see | past · perfect | youth | the marvels not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer marvel=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | study | participle | youth not said here | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=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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