The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 6, sentence 51
He waited for some time, but as no one came to demand them be undid the packs, and to his great joy found them to be full of money.
Who acts: Guido, packs, packages · What happens: wait, come, demand, be, find, joy · To what, where: packages
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 (Guido, packs, packages), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 waited | nsubj |
| 2 | waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 time | case |
| 4 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 time | det |
| 5 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 waited | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 came | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 came | cc |
| 8 | as | as | ADP | _ | 10 one | case |
| 9 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 10 one | det |
| 10 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 came | obl |
| 11 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 waited | conj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 demand | mark |
| 13 | demand | demand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 undid | csubj |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 demand | obj |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 undid | cop |
| 16 | undid | undid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 came | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 packs | det |
| 18 | packs | pack | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 undid | nsubj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 found | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 found | cc |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 joy | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 joy | nmod:poss |
| 23 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 joy | amod |
| 24 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 found | obl |
| 25 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 waited | conj |
| 26 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 found | obj |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 full | mark |
| 28 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 29 full | cop |
| 29 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 found | xcomp |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 money | case |
| 31 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 full | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 waited | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | past | Guido | time | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | come | past | Guido not said here | as no one | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | demand speech: request | to-infinitive | packages = package | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme they=Precondition | |||||
| 4 | is | infinitive | the packs | undid property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | find | past | Guido not said here | packages = package | to Guido's great joy | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic | |||
| 6 | is | to-infinitive | packages = package not said here | of money; full property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | joy | Guido | nom joy «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
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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