The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 26, sentence 83
The first of the young men was so overcome by the beauty that surrounded him that he thought only of present enjoyment, forgetting entirely the advice of the man who had first addressed them before entering the garden.
Who acts: beauty, first · What happens: overcome, surround, think, forget, address, enter · To what, where: first, beauty, advice, man, garden
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 (beauty, first), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 first | det |
| 2 | first | first | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 9 overcome | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 men | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 men | det |
| 5 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 men | amod |
| 6 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 first | nmod |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 overcome | aux:pass |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 overcome | advmod |
| 9 | overcome | overcome | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 beauty | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 beauty | det |
| 12 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 overcome | obl |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 surrounded | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | surrounded | surround | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 beauty | acl |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 surrounded | obj |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 thought | mark |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 thought | nsubj |
| 18 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 overcome | advcl |
| 19 | only | only | ADV | _ | 22 enjoyment | advmod |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 enjoyment | case |
| 21 | present | present | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 enjoyment | amod |
| 22 | enjoyment | enjoyment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 thought | ccomp |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 forgetting | punct |
| 24 | forgetting | forget | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 thought | advcl |
| 25 | entirely | entirely | ADV | _ | 24 forgetting | advmod |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 advice | det |
| 27 | advice | advice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 forgetting | obj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 man | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 man | det |
| 30 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 advice | nmod |
| 31 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 34 addressed | nsubj:pass |
| 32 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 addressed | aux |
| 33 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 34 addressed | advmod |
| 34 | addressed | address | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 man | acl:relcl |
| 35 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 addressed | obj |
| 36 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 37 entering | mark |
| 37 | entering | enter | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 34 addressed | advcl |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 garden | det |
| 39 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 entering | obj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 overcome | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | overcome | past · passive | the beauty | the first of the young men | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | surround | participle · passive | the beauty | first obj | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | think speech: other | past | first | present enjoyment ccomp | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | forget | gerund | first not said here | the advice of the man | entirely property | tree rules | |||
| 5 | address | past · perfect · passive | the man | summons = summon obj; first property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | enter | gerund | the garden | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme garden=Destination |
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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