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The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 8, sentence 52

At last it seemed to him that he was wasting time, so he decided to go straight to the shrine of Jofuku, to whom he would pray for assistance in his search.

Who acts: it, story · What happens: seem, waste, decide, go, pray, search · To what, where: story, last, shrine

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 (it, 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

caseoblnsubjcaseoblmarknsubjauxxcompobjpunctadvmodnsubjconjmarkxcompadvmodcasedetoblcasenmodpunctcaseoblnsubjauxconjcaseoblcasenmod:possnmodpunctrootAtADPlastADJitPRONseemedVERBtoADPhimPRONthatSCONJhePRONwasAUXwastingVERBtimeNOUN,PUNCTsoADVhePRONdecidedVERBtoPARTgoVERBstraightADVtoADPtheDETshrineNOUNofADPJofukuPROPN,PUNCTtoADPwhomPRONhePRONwouldAUXprayVERBforADPassistanceNOUNinADPhisPRONsearchNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1AtatADP_2 lastcase
2lastlastADJDegree=Pos4 seemedobl
3ititPRONCase=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs4 seemednsubj
4seemedseemVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
5totoADP_6 himcase
6himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs4 seemedobl
7thatthatSCONJ_10 wastingmark
8hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs10 wastingnsubj
9wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin10 wastingaux
10wastingwasteVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part4 seemedxcomp
11timetimeNOUNNumber=Sing10 wastingobj
12,,PUNCT_15 decidedpunct
13sosoADV_15 decidedadvmod
14hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs15 decidednsubj
15decideddecideVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin4 seemedconj
16totoPART_17 gomark
17gogoVERBVerbForm=Inf15 decidedxcomp
18straightstraightADV_21 shrineadvmod
19totoADP_21 shrinecase
20thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art21 shrinedet
21shrineshrineNOUNNumber=Sing17 goobl
22ofofADP_23 Jofukucase
23JofukuJofukuPROPNNumber=Sing21 shrinenmod
24,,PUNCT_29 praypunct
25totoADP_26 whomcase
26whomwhomPRONPronType=Rel29 prayobl
27hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs29 praynsubj
28wouldwouldAUXVerbForm=Fin29 prayaux
29prayprayVERBVerbForm=Inf17 goconj
30forforADP_31 assistancecase
31assistanceassistanceNOUNNumber=Sing29 prayobl
32ininADP_34 searchcase
33hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs34 searchnmod:poss
34searchsearchNOUNNumber=Sing31 assistancenmod
35..PUNCT_4 seemedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1seempastitstorylastvn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
2wastepast · progressivestorytimevn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3decidepaststoryvn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4go not said to happento-infinitivestory not said herethe shrine of Jofukuvn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to shrine=Initial_Location
5praywouldstoryfor assistance in story's search; whom oblvn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for assistance=Theme
6searchstorynom search «act 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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