The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 6, sentence 85
When Musai returned, he was filled with dismay on seeing all of his silkworms killed, but he didn’t think of suspecting his own brother.
Who acts: Musai · What happens: return, fill, see, kill, not think, suspect · To what, where: Musai, all, own brother
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), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 returned | advmod |
| 2 | Musai | Musai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 returned | nsubj |
| 3 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 filled | advcl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 returned | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 filled | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 filled | aux:pass |
| 7 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 dismay | case |
| 9 | dismay | dismay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 filled | obl |
| 10 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 11 seeing | mark |
| 11 | seeing | see | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 filled | advcl |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 seeing | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 silkworms | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 silkworms | nmod:poss |
| 15 | silkworms | silkworm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 all | nmod |
| 16 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 all | acl:relcl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 think | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 think | cc |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 think | nsubj |
| 20 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 think | aux |
| 21 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 think | advmod |
| 22 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 filled | conj |
| 23 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 24 suspecting | mark |
| 24 | suspecting | suspect | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 think | advcl |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 brother | nmod:poss |
| 26 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 brother | amod |
| 27 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 suspecting | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 filled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past | Musai | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | fill | past · passive | Musai | with dismay | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with dismay=Instrument | ||||
| 3 | see | gerund | all of Musai's silkworms | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer all=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | kill | past | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 5 | not think speech: other | past · do-support | Musai | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | suspect | gerund | Musai not said here | Musai's own brother | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent brother=Attribute |
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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