The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 4, sentence 12
So he set out on his travels, but for several months could learn nothing that would help him in his search.
Who acts: Balna · What happens: set out, travel, learn, help, search · To what, where: nothing, Balna, search
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Balna), 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 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 set | nsubj |
| 3 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 set | compound:prt |
| 5 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 7 travels | mark |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 travels | nmod:poss |
| 7 | travels | travel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 set | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 learn | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 learn | cc |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 months | case |
| 11 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 months | amod |
| 12 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 learn | obl |
| 13 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 learn | aux |
| 14 | learn | learn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 travels | conj |
| 15 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 14 learn | obj |
| 16 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 help | nsubj |
| 17 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 help | aux |
| 18 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 nothing | acl:relcl |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 help | obj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 search | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 search | nmod:poss |
| 22 | search | search | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 help | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set out | past | Balna | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | travel | present | Balna not said here | Balna nmod:poss | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | learn | could | Balna not said here | nothing | month | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic | |||
| 4 | help | would | Balna | Balna's search | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary | ||||
| 5 | search | Balna | nom search «act transitive»: poss=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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