The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 6, sentence 25
One day, while riding in the forest, he was so overcome by the thought of his own greatness, that he exclaimed aloud: “There is no man in all this empire more powerful than I am.”
Who acts: One day, thought, man · What happens: ride, overcome, exclaim, be, think · To what, where: forest, man, own greatness · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (One day, thought, man), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 overcome | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 riding | punct |
| 4 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 5 riding | mark |
| 5 | riding | ride | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 day | acl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 forest | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 forest | det |
| 8 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 riding | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 day | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 overcome | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 overcome | aux:pass |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 overcome | advmod |
| 13 | overcome | overcome | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 37 powerful | advcl |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 thought | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 thought | det |
| 16 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 overcome | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 greatness | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 greatness | nmod:poss |
| 19 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 greatness | amod |
| 20 | greatness | greatness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 thought | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 exclaimed | punct |
| 22 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 exclaimed | mark |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 exclaimed | nsubj |
| 24 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 overcome | conj |
| 25 | aloud | aloud | ADV | _ | 24 exclaimed | advmod |
| 26 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 29 is | punct |
| 27 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 is | punct |
| 28 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 29 is | expl |
| 29 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 powerful | cop |
| 30 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 31 man | det |
| 31 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 is | nsubj |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 empire | case |
| 33 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 35 empire | det:predet |
| 34 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 35 empire | det |
| 35 | empire | empire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 man | nmod |
| 36 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 37 powerful | advmod |
| 37 | powerful | powerful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 38 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 40 am | mark |
| 39 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 40 am | nsubj |
| 40 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 powerful | advcl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 37 powerful | punct |
| 42 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 37 powerful | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride | gerund | One day not said here | the forest | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | overcome | past · passive | the thought of man's own greatness | man | day | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot subject=Theme | |||
| 3 | exclaim speech: express | past | man | aloud property | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | powerful property | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | think | man's own greatness | nom thought «cognition 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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