The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 8, sentence 54
At the end of this time, while kneeling before the shrine, he was suddenly enveloped in a cloud, and when this cleared away he saw Jofuku himself standing before him.
Who acts: end, this, story, Jofuku · What happens: kneel, envelop, clear away, see, stand · To what, where: shrine, story, end, Jofuku
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 (end, this, story, Jofuku), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 end | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 end | det |
| 3 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 enveloped | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 time | case |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 time | det |
| 6 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 end | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 kneeling | punct |
| 8 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 9 kneeling | mark |
| 9 | kneeling | kneel | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 end | acl |
| 10 | before | before | ADP | _ | 12 shrine | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 shrine | det |
| 12 | shrine | shrine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 kneeling | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 end | punct |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 enveloped | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 enveloped | aux:pass |
| 16 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 17 enveloped | advmod |
| 17 | enveloped | envelop | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 cloud | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 cloud | det |
| 20 | cloud | cloud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 enveloped | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 cleared | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 cleared | cc |
| 23 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 25 cleared | advmod |
| 24 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 25 cleared | nsubj |
| 25 | cleared | clear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 saw | advcl |
| 26 | away | away | ADV | _ | 25 cleared | advmod |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 saw | nsubj |
| 28 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 enveloped | conj |
| 29 | Jofuku | Jofuku | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 saw | obj |
| 30 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 29 Jofuku | nmod:unmarked |
| 31 | standing | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 28 saw | xcomp |
| 32 | before | before | ADP | _ | 33 him | case |
| 33 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 standing | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 enveloped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kneel | gerund | the end of this time not said here | the shrine | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before shrine=Location | ||||
| 2 | envelop | past · passive | story | at the end of this time | in a cloud; suddenly property | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-Theme | |||
| 3 | clear away | participle | this | away property | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP.Source V»: agent=Source | ||||
| 4 | see | past | story | Jofuku story | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | stand | gerund | Jofuku story not said here | before story | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before he=Location |
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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