The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 26, sentence 97
He had left the garden, to the fruit of which he had become so accustomed; his strength left him, and he sank to the ground and expired.
Who acts: first, strength · What happens: leave, become, accustom, sink · To what, where: garden, first
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 (first, strength), 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 left | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 left | aux |
| 3 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 garden | det |
| 5 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 left | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 fruit | punct |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 fruit | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 fruit | det |
| 9 | fruit | fruit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 left | parataxis |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 which | case |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 become | obl |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 become | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 become | aux |
| 14 | become | become | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 fruit | acl:relcl |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 accustomed | advmod |
| 16 | accustomed | accustom | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 become | xcomp |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 left | punct |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 strength | nmod:poss |
| 19 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 left | nsubj |
| 20 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 left | parataxis |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 left | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 sank | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 sank | cc |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 sank | nsubj |
| 25 | sank | sink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 left | advcl |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 ground | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 ground | det |
| 28 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 sank | obl |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 expired | cc |
| 30 | expired | expired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 ground | conj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past · perfect | first | the garden | the fruit parataxis | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent garden=Theme | |||
| 2 | become | past · perfect | first | of the fruit | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | accustom | participle | first not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | leave | past | first's strength | first | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 5 | sink | past | first | to the ground | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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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