The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 7, sentence 4

He lay down, intending to follow his brother’s example, but found that he could not go to sleep, try as hard as he might.

Who acts: Chô, brother · What happens: lie down, intend, follow, find, not go, sleep · To what, where: example · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Chô, brother), 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 lay	nsubj
2	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	down	down	ADV	_	2 lay	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 intending	punct
5	intending	intend	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 lay	advcl
6	to	to	PART	_	7 follow	mark
7	follow	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 intending	xcomp
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 brother	nmod:poss
9	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 example	nmod:poss
10	’s	's	PART	_	9 brother	case
11	example	example	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 follow	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 found	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 found	cc
14	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 lay	conj
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 go	mark
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 go	nsubj
17	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 go	aux
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 go	advmod
19	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 found	ccomp
20	to	to	PART	_	21 sleep	mark
21	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 go	xcomp
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 try	punct
23	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 go	conj
24	as	as	ADV	_	25 hard	advmod
25	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	23 try	advmod
26	as	as	SCONJ	_	28 might	mark
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 might	nsubj
28	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 hard	advcl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 lay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	lie down	past	Chô		down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	intend	gerund	Chô not said here			vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	follow not said to happen	to-infinitive	Chô not said here	Chô's brother's example		vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent example=Theme
4	find	past	Chô not said here			vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	not go	could	Chô			vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	sleep	to-infinitive	Chô not said here			vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	try	infinitive	Chô not said here		hard property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
8	exemplify		Chô's brother			nom example «cognition 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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🌲 The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 7, sentence 4

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The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 7, sentence 4