The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 5, sentence 53
It seemed to him that she had sent him on a mission of great danger, knowing it to be impossible to accomplish the task which she had set him.
Who acts: It, love · What happens: seem, send, know, be, accomplish, set · To what, where: word, mission, task · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, love), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 seemed | nsubj |
| 2 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 him | case |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 seemed | obl |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 sent | mark |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 sent | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 sent | aux |
| 8 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 seemed | xcomp |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 sent | obj |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 mission | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 mission | det |
| 12 | mission | mission | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sent | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 danger | case |
| 14 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 danger | amod |
| 15 | danger | danger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 mission | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 knowing | punct |
| 17 | knowing | know | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 sent | advcl |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 knowing | obj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 impossible | mark |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 impossible | cop |
| 21 | impossible | impossible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 knowing | ccomp |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 accomplish | mark |
| 23 | accomplish | accomplish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 impossible | csubj |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 task | det |
| 25 | task | task | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 accomplish | obj |
| 26 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 set | nsubj:pass |
| 27 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 set | nsubj:pass |
| 28 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 set | aux |
| 29 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 task | acl:relcl |
| 30 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 set | obj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 seemed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | past | It | word | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | send | past · perfect | love | word | a mission of great danger | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 3 | know | gerund | love not said here | mission | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | is | to-infinitive | impossible property | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | accomplish | to-infinitive | the task | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent task=Eventuality | |||||
| 6 | set | past · perfect · passive | the task | love nsubj:pass; word obj | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme he=Destination |
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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