The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 8, sentence 120
Now the Crane was very fond of fish, and he was trying to figure out a plan whereby he could satisfy his appetite.
Who acts: Crane, water · What happens: be, try, figure out, satisfy · To what, where: plan, appetite
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 (Crane, water), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 fond | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Crane | det |
| 3 | Crane | Crane | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 fond | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 fond | cop |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 fond | advmod |
| 6 | fond | fond | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 fish | case |
| 8 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fond | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 trying | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 trying | cc |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 trying | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 trying | aux |
| 13 | trying | try | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 fond | conj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 figure | mark |
| 15 | figure | figure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 trying | xcomp |
| 16 | out | out | ADP | _ | 15 figure | compound:prt |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 plan | det |
| 18 | plan | plan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 figure | obj |
| 19 | whereby | whereby | ADV | PronType=Int | 22 satisfy | advmod |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 satisfy | nsubj |
| 21 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 satisfy | aux |
| 22 | satisfy | satisfy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 plan | acl:relcl |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 appetite | nmod:poss |
| 24 | appetite | appetite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 satisfy | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 fond | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the Crane | now | of fish; fond property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | try | past · progressive | water | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | figure out not said to happen | to-infinitive | water not said here | a plan | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plan=Topic | ||||
| 4 | satisfy | could | water | water's appetite | whereby property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus appetite=Experiencer |
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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