The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 27, sentence 5
And now the young man understood that which had before been a mystery to him, and the love and gratitude he had always felt for his master grew greater.
Who acts: young man, master · What happens: understand, have, be, feel, grow · To what, where: mystery, man, love · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young man, master), 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 | _ | 6 understood | cc |
| 2 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 understood | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 man | det |
| 4 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 man | amod |
| 5 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 understood | nsubj |
| 6 | understood | understand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 had | mark |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 had | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 understood | ccomp |
| 10 | before | before | ADV | _ | 13 mystery | advmod |
| 11 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 mystery | cop |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 mystery | det |
| 13 | mystery | mystery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 had | obj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 him | case |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 mystery | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 felt | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 felt | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 love | det |
| 19 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 felt | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 gratitude | cc |
| 21 | gratitude | gratitude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 love | conj |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 felt | nsubj |
| 23 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 felt | aux |
| 24 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 25 felt | advmod |
| 25 | felt | feel | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 understood | parataxis |
| 26 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 29 grew | mark |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 master | nmod:poss |
| 28 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 grew | nsubj |
| 29 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 felt | advcl |
| 30 | greater | great | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 29 grew | xcomp |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 understood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | understand | past | the young man | now | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | have | past | which nsubj | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a | participle | a mystery | man | before property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | feel | past · perfect · passive | the love and gratitude | man nsubj; always property | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 5 | grow | past | man's master | great property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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