The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 10, sentence 35
Big tears rolled from its large, round eyes, and in a hoarse voice it uttered its complaints through its crooked beak.
Who acts: Big tears, chamber · What happens: roll, utter, complain · To what, where: Big tears, large round eyes, complaints, hoarse voice
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 (Big tears, chamber), 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 | Big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 tears | amod |
| 2 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 uttered | nsubj |
| 3 | rolled | roll | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 tears | acl |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 eyes | case |
| 5 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 6 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 eyes | amod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 large | punct |
| 8 | round | round | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 eyes | amod |
| 9 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 rolled | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 uttered | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 uttered | cc |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 voice | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 voice | det |
| 14 | hoarse | hoarse | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 voice | amod |
| 15 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 uttered | obl |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 uttered | nsubj |
| 17 | uttered | utter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 complaints | nmod:poss |
| 19 | complaints | complaint | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 uttered | obj |
| 20 | through | through | ADP | _ | 23 beak | case |
| 21 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 beak | nmod:poss |
| 22 | crooked | crooked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 beak | amod |
| 23 | beak | beak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 uttered | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 uttered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | roll | participle | Big tears not said here | chamber's large round eyes | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from eye=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | utter speech: other | past | Big tears | chamber's complaints | a hoarse voice | through chamber's crooked beak; chamber nsubj | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent complaint=Topic | ||
| 3 | complain | chamber | nom complaint «state intransitive»: 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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