The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 10, sentence 11
So they lounged about for several days, supporting themselves on fruits, which, however, they found some difficulty in eating with their long bills.
Who acts: meadows, fruits, difficulty · What happens: lounge, support, find, eat, bill · To what, where: meadows, fruits, difficulty
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 (meadows, fruits, difficulty), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 lounged | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 lounged | nsubj |
| 3 | lounged | lounge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | about | about | ADV | _ | 3 lounged | advmod |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 days | case |
| 6 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 days | amod |
| 7 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 lounged | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 supporting | punct |
| 9 | supporting | support | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 lounged | advcl |
| 10 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 9 supporting | obj |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 fruits | case |
| 12 | fruits | fruit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 supporting | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 found | punct |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 found | nsubj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 which | punct |
| 16 | however | however | ADV | _ | 19 found | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 however | punct |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 found | nsubj |
| 19 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 fruits | acl:relcl |
| 20 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 21 difficulty | det |
| 21 | difficulty | difficulty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 found | obj |
| 22 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 23 eating | mark |
| 23 | eating | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 21 difficulty | acl |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 bills | case |
| 25 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 bills | nmod:poss |
| 26 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 bills | amod |
| 27 | bills | bill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 eating | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 lounged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lounge | past | meadows = meadow | day | about property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | support | gerund | meadows = meadow not said here | meadows = meadow | fruits | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer themselves=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | find | past | fruits | some difficulty | meadows = meadow nsubj; however property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent difficulty=Topic | |||
| 4 | eat | gerund | some difficulty not said here | with meadows's long bills | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | bill | meadows = meadow | nom bill «communication 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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