The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 8, sentence 110
For, behold, he had fallen asleep during his long prayers before the shrine, and all of this had come to him in a dream.
Who acts: life, all · What happens: fall, come, pray · To what, where: life, dream
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, all), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 behold | case |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 behold | punct |
| 3 | behold | behold | INTJ | _ | 7 fallen | discourse |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 behold | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 fallen | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 fallen | aux |
| 7 | fallen | fall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 fallen | xcomp |
| 9 | during | during | ADP | _ | 12 prayers | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 prayers | nmod:poss |
| 11 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 prayers | amod |
| 12 | prayers | prayer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 fallen | obl |
| 13 | before | before | ADP | _ | 15 shrine | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 shrine | det |
| 15 | shrine | shrine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 prayers | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 come | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 come | cc |
| 18 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 come | nsubj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 this | case |
| 20 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 all | nmod |
| 21 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 come | aux |
| 22 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 fallen | conj |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 him | case |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 come | obl |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 dream | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 dream | det |
| 27 | dream | dream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 come | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 fallen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past · perfect | life | during life's long prayers before the shrine | asleep property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | come | past · perfect | all of this | life | a dream | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | pray | life | before the shrine | nom prayer «act intransitive»: poss=agent before=obl |
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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