The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 26, sentence 86
He was dazzled by the treasures he found, and his only thought was of how much he could gather together and take away with him.
Who acts: treasures, beauty · What happens: dazzle, find, think, be, take away · To what, where: beauty, treasures · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (treasures, beauty), 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 dazzled | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 dazzled | aux:pass |
| 3 | dazzled | dazzle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 treasures | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 treasures | det |
| 6 | treasures | treasure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 dazzled | obl |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 found | nsubj |
| 8 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 treasures | acl:relcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 thought | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 thought | cc |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 thought | nmod:poss |
| 12 | only | only | ADV | _ | 13 thought | advmod |
| 13 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 dazzled | advcl |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 gather | cop |
| 15 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 20 gather | mark |
| 16 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 much | advmod |
| 17 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 gather | obj |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 gather | nsubj |
| 19 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 gather | aux |
| 20 | gather | gather | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 thought | ccomp |
| 21 | together | together | ADV | _ | 20 gather | advmod |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 take | cc |
| 23 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 gather | conj |
| 24 | away | away | ADV | _ | 23 take | advmod |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 him | case |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 take | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 dazzled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dazzle | past · passive | the treasures | beauty | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | find | past | beauty | the treasures not said here | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent treasure=Topic | ||||
| 3 | think speech: other | past | the treasures not said here | beauty nmod:poss | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is | could · past | beauty | gather, together property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | take away | infinitive | beauty not said here | with beauty; away property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: 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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