The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 3, sentence 1
Seeing these two men about to die for a crime which he had committed, he was filled with remorse.
What happens: see, die, commit, fill · To what, where: two men, crime, he
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 3. 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 | Seeing | see | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 filled | advcl |
| 2 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 4 men | det |
| 3 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 men | nummod |
| 4 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Seeing | obj |
| 5 | about | about | SCONJ | _ | 7 die | mark |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 die | mark |
| 7 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Seeing | advcl |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 crime | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 crime | det |
| 10 | crime | crime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 die | obl |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 committed | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 committed | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 committed | aux |
| 14 | committed | commit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 crime | acl:relcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Seeing | punct |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 filled | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 filled | aux:pass |
| 18 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 remorse | case |
| 20 | remorse | remorse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 filled | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 filled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | gerund | this two men | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | die | to-infinitive | for a crime | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for crime=Theme | |||||
| 3 | commit | past · perfect · passive | a crime | he nsubj | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 4 | fill | past · passive | he | with remorse | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with remorse=Instrument |
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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