The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 4, sentence 13
After journeying many hundreds of weary miles, and having become almost hopeless of hearing anything further of his parents and uncles, he reached a country that was full of rocks and stones and trees, and there he saw a large palace with a high tower, near which was a Malee’s little house.
Who acts: Balna, country · What happens: journey, have, become, hear, reach, be · To what, where: many hundreds, anything, country, large palace, little house
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, country), 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 | After | after | SCONJ | _ | 2 journeying | mark |
| 2 | journeying | journey | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 25 reached | advcl |
| 3 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 hundreds | amod |
| 4 | hundreds | hundred | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 journeying | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 miles | case |
| 6 | weary | weary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 miles | amod |
| 7 | miles | mile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 hundreds | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 become | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 become | cc |
| 10 | having | have | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 become | nsubj |
| 11 | become | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 journeying | parataxis |
| 12 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 13 hopeless | advmod |
| 13 | hopeless | hopeless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 become | xcomp |
| 14 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 15 hearing | mark |
| 15 | hearing | hear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 hopeless | advcl |
| 16 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 15 hearing | obj |
| 17 | further | further | ADV | _ | 20 parents | advmod |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 parents | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 parents | nmod:poss |
| 20 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 hearing | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 uncles | cc |
| 22 | uncles | uncle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 parents | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 journeying | punct |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 reached | nsubj |
| 25 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 country | det |
| 27 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 reached | obj |
| 28 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 full | nsubj |
| 29 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 full | cop |
| 30 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 country | acl:relcl |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 rocks | case |
| 32 | rocks | rock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 full | obl |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 stones | cc |
| 34 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 rocks | conj |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 trees | cc |
| 36 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 rocks | conj |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 saw | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 saw | cc |
| 39 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 41 saw | expl |
| 40 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 saw | nsubj |
| 41 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 reached | conj |
| 42 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 44 palace | det |
| 43 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 palace | amod |
| 44 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 saw | obj |
| 45 | with | with | ADP | _ | 48 tower | case |
| 46 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 48 tower | det |
| 47 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 48 tower | amod |
| 48 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 palace | nmod |
| 49 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 57 house | punct |
| 50 | near | near | ADP | _ | 51 which | case |
| 51 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 57 house | obl |
| 52 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 57 house | cop |
| 53 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 54 Malee | det |
| 54 | Malee | Malee | PROPN | Number=Sing | 57 house | nmod:poss |
| 55 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 54 Malee | case |
| 56 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 57 house | amod |
| 57 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 palace | conj |
| 58 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 25 reached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | journey | gerund | Balna not said here | many hundreds of weary miles | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme hundred=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | have | gerund | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | become | present | hopeless property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | hear | gerund | anything | of Balna's parents and uncles | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer anything=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | reach | past | Balna | a country | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent country=Theme | ||||
| 6 | is | past | a country | of rocks and stones and trees; full property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | see | past | Balna | a large palace and a Malee's little house | there | with a high tower | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer palace=Stimulus | ||
| 8 | is a | past | Balna not said here | a Malee's little house | a large palace and a Malee's little house | a Malee nmod:poss | tree rules |
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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