The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 9, sentence 82
When he wishes to resume the human form, he has only to look three times toward the east, and to repeat the same word.
Who acts: Selim · What happens: wish, resume, have, look, repeat · To what, where: human form, same word · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Selim), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 3 wishes | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 wishes | nsubj |
| 3 | wishes | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 has | advcl |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 resume | mark |
| 5 | resume | resume | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 wishes | ccomp |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 form | det |
| 7 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 form | amod |
| 8 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 resume | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 wishes | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 has | nsubj |
| 11 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | only | only | ADV | _ | 14 look | advmod |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 look | mark |
| 14 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 has | xcomp |
| 15 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 times | nummod |
| 16 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 look | obl:unmarked |
| 17 | toward | toward | ADP | _ | 19 east | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 east | det |
| 19 | east | east | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 look | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 repeat | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 repeat | cc |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 repeat | mark |
| 23 | repeat | repeat | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 14 look | conj |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 word | det |
| 25 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 word | amod |
| 26 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 repeat | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 has | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wish | present | Selim | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | resume not said to happen | to-infinitive | the human form | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent form=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | have | present | Selim | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | look | to-infinitive | Selim not said here | time | toward the east | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent toward east=Theme | |||
| 5 | repeat | to-infinitive | Selim not said here | the same word | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Eventuality |
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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