The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 10, sentence 40
When Caliph had recovered from his surprise, he drew up his feet into a graceful position, bent his long neck, and said: “O, screech owl!
Who acts: Caliph · What happens: recover, draw up, bend, say, screech, surprise · To what, where: surprise, feet, graceful position, long neck, owl · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Caliph), 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 | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 recovered | advmod |
| 2 | Caliph | Caliph | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 recovered | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 recovered | aux |
| 4 | recovered | recover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 surprise | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 surprise | nmod:poss |
| 7 | surprise | surprise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 recovered | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 drew | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 drew | nsubj |
| 10 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 recovered | parataxis |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 drew | compound:prt |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 feet | nmod:poss |
| 13 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 drew | obj |
| 14 | into | into | ADP | _ | 17 position | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 position | det |
| 16 | graceful | graceful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 position | amod |
| 17 | position | position | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 drew | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 bent | punct |
| 19 | bent | bend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 drew | conj |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 neck | nmod:poss |
| 21 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 neck | amod |
| 22 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 bent | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 said | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 said | cc |
| 25 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 drew | conj |
| 26 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 30 screech | punct |
| 27 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 30 screech | punct |
| 28 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 30 screech | discourse |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 O | punct |
| 30 | screech | screech | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 said | ccomp |
| 31 | owl | owl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 screech | obj |
| 32 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 recovered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | recover | past · perfect | Caliph | Caliph's surprise | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from surprise=Source | ||||
| 2 | draw up | past | Caliph | Caliph's feet | into a graceful position result | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent foot=Patient into position=Result | |||
| 3 | bend | past | Caliph not said here | Caliph's long neck | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent neck=Material | ||||
| 4 | say speech: express | past | Caliph not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | screech in a quote | infinitive | owl | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent owl=Theme | |||||
| 6 | surprise | Caliph | nom surprise «feeling 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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