The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 9, sentence 92
First they walked through the palace gardens, but they looked in vain for some creature which would tempt them to try their magic powder.
Who acts: Caliph, creature · What happens: walk, look, tempt, try · To what, where: palace gardens, vain, Caliph, magic powder
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 (Caliph, creature), 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 | First | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 walked | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 walked | nsubj |
| 3 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | through | through | ADP | _ | 7 gardens | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 gardens | det |
| 6 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 gardens | compound |
| 7 | gardens | garden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 walked | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 looked | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 looked | cc |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 looked | nsubj |
| 11 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 walked | conj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 vain | case |
| 13 | vain | vain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 looked | obl |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 creature | case |
| 15 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 16 creature | det |
| 16 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 looked | obl |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 tempt | nsubj |
| 18 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 tempt | aux |
| 19 | tempt | tempt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 creature | acl:relcl |
| 20 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 tempt | obj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 try | mark |
| 22 | try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 tempt | xcomp |
| 23 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 powder | nmod:poss |
| 24 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 powder | amod |
| 25 | powder | powder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 try | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 walked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | past | Caliph | the palace gardens | first property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through garden=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | look | past | Caliph | vain | for some creature | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent in vain=Location for creature=Theme | |||
| 3 | tempt | would | some creature | Caliph | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | try | to-infinitive | some creature not said here | Caliph's magic powder | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent powder=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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