The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 26, sentence 96
So they set out for the gate by which they had entered, and as soon as they had passed through this the first of the three—he who had thought only of present enjoyment—was overcome by the change of air.
Who acts: things, first, change, air · What happens: set out, enter, pass, think, overcome, change · To what, where: things, this
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 (things, first, change, air), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 set | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 set | nsubj |
| 3 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 set | compound:prt |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 gate | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 gate | det |
| 7 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 set | obl |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 which | case |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 entered | obl |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 entered | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 entered | aux |
| 12 | entered | enter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 gate | acl:relcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 passed | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 passed | cc |
| 15 | as | as | ADV | _ | 16 soon | advmod |
| 16 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 20 passed | advmod |
| 17 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 20 passed | mark |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 passed | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 passed | aux |
| 20 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 set | conj |
| 21 | through | through | ADP | _ | 22 this | case |
| 22 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 passed | obl |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 first | det |
| 24 | first | first | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 20 passed | obj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 three | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 three | det |
| 27 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 first | nmod |
| 28 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 32 thought | punct |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 thought | nsubj |
| 30 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 thought | nsubj |
| 31 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 thought | aux |
| 32 | thought | think | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 set | parataxis |
| 33 | only | only | ADV | _ | 36 enjoyment | advmod |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 enjoyment | case |
| 35 | present | present | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 enjoyment | amod |
| 36 | enjoyment | enjoyment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 thought | obl |
| 37 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 39 overcome | punct |
| 38 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 overcome | aux:pass |
| 39 | overcome | overcome | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 32 thought | conj |
| 40 | by | by | ADP | _ | 42 change | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 change | det |
| 42 | change | change | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 overcome | obl |
| 43 | of | of | ADP | _ | 44 air | case |
| 44 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 change | nmod |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set out | past | things = thing | for the gate | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | enter | past · perfect | things = thing | by the gate | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | pass | past · perfect · passive | things = thing | this | the first of the three obj; soon property | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient first=Theme | |||
| 4 | think speech: other | past · perfect | first | of present enjoyment; who nsubj | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | overcome | past · passive | the change of air | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 6 | change | air | nom change «event intransitive»: of=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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