The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 8, sentence 109
In his fright he screamed so loudly for Jofuku to save him that he awakened himself.
Who acts: life · What happens: scream, save, awaken, fright · To what, where: fright, life
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (life), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 fright | case |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 fright | nmod:poss |
| 3 | fright | fright | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 screamed | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 screamed | nsubj |
| 5 | screamed | scream | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 loudly | advmod |
| 7 | loudly | loudly | ADV | _ | 5 screamed | advmod |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 Jofuku | case |
| 9 | Jofuku | Jofuku | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 screamed | obl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 save | mark |
| 11 | save | save | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 screamed | advcl |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 save | obj |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 awakened | mark |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 awakened | nsubj |
| 15 | awakened | awaken | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 save | advcl |
| 16 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 15 awakened | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 screamed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scream speech: express | past | life | life's fright | for Jofuku; loudly property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in fright=Location | |||
| 2 | save | to-infinitive | life not said here | life | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 3 | awaken | past | life | life | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location himself=Theme | ||||
| 4 | fright | life | nom fright «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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