The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 8, sentence 51
He traveled, and traveled, climbing to the peaks of the highest mountains, and wandering through unknown regions, but meeting with no success.
Who acts: story · What happens: travel, climb, wonder, meet · To what, where: peaks, unknown regions
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), 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 traveled | nsubj |
| 2 | traveled | travel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 traveled | punct |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 traveled | cc |
| 5 | traveled | travel | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 traveled | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 climbing | punct |
| 7 | climbing | climb | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 traveled | advcl |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 peaks | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 peaks | det |
| 10 | peaks | peak | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 climbing | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 mountains | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 mountains | det |
| 13 | highest | high | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 14 mountains | amod |
| 14 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 peaks | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 wandering | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 wandering | cc |
| 17 | wandering | wonder | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 climbing | conj |
| 18 | through | through | ADP | _ | 20 regions | case |
| 19 | unknown | unknown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 regions | amod |
| 20 | regions | region | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 wandering | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 meeting | punct |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 meeting | cc |
| 23 | meeting | meet | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 climbing | conj |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 success | case |
| 25 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 26 success | det |
| 26 | success | success | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 meeting | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 traveled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | travel | past | story | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | travel | participle | story not said here | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | climb | gerund | story not said here | the peaks of the highest mountains | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to peak=Destination | ||||
| 4 | wonder speech: ask | gerund | story not said here | unknown regions | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | meet | gerund | story not said here | with no success | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with success=Co-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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