The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 8, sentence 50
The story of the Emperor Shiko made such an impression on Opulo that he made up his mind to seek the hermits who held the secret of this marvelous water of life, and if possible to become one of them; so he started out on his quest.
Who acts: story, hermits · What happens: make, make up, seek, hold, become, start out · To what, where: impression, Opulo, mind, hermits, secret, one
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 (story, hermits), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 story | det |
| 2 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 made | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Emperor | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Emperor | det |
| 5 | Emperor | Emperor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 story | nmod |
| 6 | Shiko | Shiko | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Emperor | flat |
| 7 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 impression | det:predet |
| 9 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 impression | det |
| 10 | impression | impression | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 made | obj |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 Opulo | case |
| 12 | Opulo | Opulo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 made | obl |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 made | mark |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 made | nsubj |
| 15 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 made | advcl |
| 16 | up | up | ADP | _ | 15 made | compound:prt |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 mind | nmod:poss |
| 18 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 made | obj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 seek | mark |
| 20 | seek | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 made | advcl |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 hermits | det |
| 22 | hermits | hermit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 seek | obj |
| 23 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 held | nsubj |
| 24 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 hermits | acl:relcl |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 secret | det |
| 26 | secret | secret | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 held | obj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 water | case |
| 28 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 30 water | det |
| 29 | marvelous | marvelous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 water | amod |
| 30 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 secret | nmod |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 life | case |
| 32 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 water | nmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 become | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 become | cc |
| 35 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 36 possible | mark |
| 36 | possible | possible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 become | advcl |
| 37 | to | to | PART | _ | 38 become | mark |
| 38 | become | become | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 made | advcl |
| 39 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 38 become | obj |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 them | case |
| 41 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 one | nmod |
| 42 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 45 started | punct |
| 43 | so | so | ADV | _ | 45 started | advmod |
| 44 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 started | nsubj |
| 45 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 made | parataxis |
| 46 | out | out | ADP | _ | 45 started | compound:prt |
| 47 | on | on | ADP | _ | 49 quest | case |
| 48 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 49 quest | nmod:poss |
| 49 | quest | quest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 started | obl |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | the story of the Emperor | such impression | Opulo | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset impression=Product | |||
| 2 | make up | past | story | story's mind | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mind=Pivot | ||||
| 3 | seek | to-infinitive | story not said here | the hermits | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hermit=Theme | ||||
| 4 | hold | past | the hermits | the secret of this marvelous water of life | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent secret=Theme | ||||
| 5 | become | to-infinitive | the story of the Emperor not said here | one of hermits | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Patient one=Result | ||||
| 6 | start out | past | story | story's quest | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 7 | mind | story | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 8 | quest | story | nom quest «cognition intransitive»: 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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