The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 4, sentence 9
No sooner had he heard this than he was seized with a great desire to go in search of his father and mother and uncles, and if he could find them alive to bring them home again.
Who acts: Balna · What happens: have, hear, seize, go, find, bring · To what, where: this, Balna, search, uncles, father · Speech: someone speaks here
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 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 sooner | det |
| 2 | sooner | soon | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 3 had | advmod |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 heard | nsubj |
| 5 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 had | conj |
| 6 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 heard | obj |
| 7 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 10 seized | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 seized | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 seized | aux:pass |
| 10 | seized | seize | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 heard | ccomp |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 desire | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 desire | det |
| 13 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 desire | amod |
| 14 | desire | desire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 seized | obl |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 go | mark |
| 16 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 seized | advcl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 search | case |
| 18 | search | search | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 go | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 father | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 father | nmod:poss |
| 21 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 search | nmod |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 mother | cc |
| 23 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 father | conj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 uncles | cc |
| 25 | uncles | uncle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 father | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 find | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 find | cc |
| 28 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 31 find | mark |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 find | nsubj |
| 30 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 find | aux |
| 31 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 had | conj |
| 32 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 find | obj |
| 33 | alive | alive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 find | xcomp |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 bring | mark |
| 35 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 alive | advcl |
| 36 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 bring | obj |
| 37 | home | home | ADV | _ | 35 bring | advmod |
| 38 | again | again | ADV | _ | 35 bring | advmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | soon property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | hear | past | Balna | this | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | seize | past · passive | Balna | with a great desire | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 4 | go | to-infinitive | search of Balna's father and mother and uncles | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in search=Location | |||||
| 5 | find a condition, not said to happen | could | Balna | uncles = uncle | alive property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic | |||
| 6 | bring | to-infinitive | Balna not said here | uncles = uncle | again | home property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||
| 7 | search | Balna's father and mother and uncles | nom search «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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