The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 10, sentence 58
The owl paused, and once more wiped her eyes with her wing, for the recital of her woes had drawn fresh tears from her.
Who acts: owl, recital · What happens: pause, wipe, draw · To what, where: eyes, fresh tears
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 (owl, recital), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 owl | det |
| 2 | owl | owl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 paused | nsubj |
| 3 | paused | pause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 wiped | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 wiped | cc |
| 6 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 8 wiped | advmod |
| 7 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 8 wiped | advmod |
| 8 | wiped | wipe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 paused | conj |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 10 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 wiped | obj |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 wing | case |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 wing | nmod:poss |
| 13 | wing | wing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 wiped | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 recital | punct |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 recital | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 recital | det |
| 17 | recital | recital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 wiped | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 woes | case |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 woes | nmod:poss |
| 20 | woes | woe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 drawn | obl |
| 21 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 drawn | aux |
| 22 | drawn | draw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 recital | acl:relcl |
| 23 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 tears | amod |
| 24 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 drawn | obj |
| 25 | from | from | ADP | _ | 26 her | case |
| 26 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 tears | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 paused | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pause | past | the owl | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | wipe | past | the owl not said here | animal's eyes | with animal's wing; for the recital; once property | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent eye=Source | |||
| 3 | draw | past · perfect | the recital not said here | fresh tears | of animal's woes; from animal | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent tear=Theme of woe=Initial_Location |
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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