The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 10, sentence 100
In the rapture of their newly given lives master and servant fell laughing and weeping into each other’s arms.
Who acts: rapture · What happens: give, live, servant, fall, laugh, weep · To what, where: birds, master, arms
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rapture), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 rapture | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 rapture | det |
| 3 | rapture | rapture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lives | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 7 given | mark |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 given | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | newly | newly | ADV | _ | 7 given | advmod |
| 7 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 rapture | advcl |
| 8 | lives | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lives | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 servant | cc |
| 11 | servant | servant | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 lives | conj |
| 12 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 servant | ccomp |
| 13 | laughing | laugh | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 fell | advcl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 weeping | cc |
| 15 | weeping | weep | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 laughing | conj |
| 16 | into | into | ADP | _ | 17 each | case |
| 17 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 other | det |
| 18 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 arms | nmod:poss |
| 19 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 18 other | case |
| 20 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 weeping | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 lives | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | participle · passive | birds = bird | newly property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | live | present | the rapture | master | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme master=Location | ||||
| 3 | servant | present | the rapture not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | fall | past | the rapture not said here | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | laugh | gerund | the rapture not said here | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | weep | gerund | the rapture not said here | each other's arms | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent arm=Theme |
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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