The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 6, sentence 30
The noise made by the great man awakened him, and he hastened to give what aid he could to whoever might be in trouble.
Who acts: noise, man · What happens: make, awaken, hasten, give, be · To what, where: noise, man, aid, whoever, trouble
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 (noise, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 noise | det |
| 2 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 awakened | nsubj |
| 3 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 noise | acl |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 man | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 man | det |
| 6 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 man | amod |
| 7 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 made | obl |
| 8 | awakened | awaken | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 awakened | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 hastened | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 hastened | cc |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 hastened | nsubj |
| 13 | hastened | hasten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 awakened | conj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 give | mark |
| 15 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 hastened | xcomp |
| 16 | what | what | DET | PronType=Int | 17 aid | det |
| 17 | aid | aid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 give | obj |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 could | nsubj |
| 19 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 aid | acl:relcl |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 whoever | case |
| 21 | whoever | whoever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 aid | nmod |
| 22 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 trouble | aux |
| 23 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 25 trouble | cop |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 trouble | case |
| 25 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 whoever | acl:relcl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 awakened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | participle | the noise not said here | by the great man | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||
| 2 | awaken | past | the noise | man | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location he=Theme | ||||
| 3 | hasten | past | man | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | give | to-infinitive | man not said here | what aid | whoever | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent aid=Theme to whoever=Recipient | |||
| 5 | is | might | trouble | 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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