The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 6, sentence 107
Soon Musai awoke, and so clear was the dream to him that he turned around to look for the stone, and there it was, close by his head.
Who acts: Musai, stone · What happens: awake, be, turn around, look · To what, where: clear dream, Musai
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Musai, stone), 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 | Soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 awoke | advmod |
| 2 | Musai | Musai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 awoke | nsubj |
| 3 | awoke | awake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 dream | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 dream | cc |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 clear | advmod |
| 7 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 dream | amod |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 dream | cop |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 dream | det |
| 10 | dream | dream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 awoke | obj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 him | case |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 dream | nmod |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 turned | mark |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 turned | nsubj |
| 15 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 awoke | advcl |
| 16 | around | around | ADV | _ | 15 turned | advmod |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 look | mark |
| 18 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 turned | advcl |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 stone | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 stone | det |
| 21 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 look | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 close | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 close | cc |
| 24 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 28 close | expl |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 close | nsubj |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 close | cop |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 close | punct |
| 28 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 awoke | parataxis |
| 29 | by | by | ADP | _ | 31 head | case |
| 30 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 head | nmod:poss |
| 31 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 close | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 awoke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | awake | past | Musai | soon property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | the clear dream | Musai | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | turn around | past | Musai | around property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | look | to-infinitive | Musai not said here | for the stone | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for stone=Theme | ||||
| 5 | is | past | stone | there | by Musai's head; close property | 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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