The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 26, sentence 99
But as soon as he had passed the gate the men on guard took from him all of the spoil, leaving him wretched, despairing and unhappy.
Who acts: first, men · What happens: pass, take, leave, despair · To what, where: gate, 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, men), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 passed | cc |
| 2 | as | as | ADV | _ | 3 soon | advmod |
| 3 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 passed | advmod |
| 4 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 passed | mark |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 passed | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 passed | aux |
| 7 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 gate | det |
| 9 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 passed | obj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 men | det |
| 11 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 took | nsubj |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 guard | case |
| 13 | guard | guard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 men | nmod |
| 14 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 passed | advcl |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 him | case |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 took | obj |
| 17 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 him | nmod:unmarked |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 spoil | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 spoil | det |
| 20 | spoil | spoil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 all | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 leaving | punct |
| 22 | leaving | leave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 took | advcl |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 leaving | obj |
| 24 | wretched | wretched | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 leaving | xcomp |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 despairing | punct |
| 26 | despairing | despair | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 leaving | conj |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 unhappy | cc |
| 28 | unhappy | unhappy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 despairing | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | past · perfect | first | the gate | soon property | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme gate=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | take | past | the men on guard | first | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination | ||||
| 3 | leave | gerund | the men on guard not said here | first | wretched property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 4 | despair | gerund | the men on guard not said here | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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