The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 26, sentence 92
And the strangest thing about it was that he had seen no one to care for all of this.
What happens: see, care · To what, where: strangest thing
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: 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 seen | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 thing | det |
| 3 | strangest | strange | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 4 thing | amod |
| 4 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 seen | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | about | about | ADP | _ | 6 it | case |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 thing | nmod |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 seen | aux:pass |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 seen | mark |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 seen | nsubj |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 seen | aux |
| 11 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 13 one | det |
| 13 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 seen | obj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 care | mark |
| 15 | care | care | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 one | acl |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 all | case |
| 17 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 care | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 this | case |
| 19 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 all | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 seen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past · perfect · passive | the strangest thing about blade | bore nsubj; no one obj | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | care | to-infinitive | for all of this | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for all=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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