The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 13, sentence 12
I ran, took it up, and knew it to be the same which I had shot.
Who acts: I · What happens: run, take up, know, be, shoot · To what, where: arrow
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 ran | nsubj |
| 2 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 took | punct |
| 4 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 ran | conj |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 took | obj |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 took | compound:prt |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 knew | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 knew | cc |
| 9 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 ran | conj |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 knew | obj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 same | mark |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 same | cop |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 same | det |
| 14 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 knew | obj |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 shot | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 shot | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 shot | aux |
| 18 | shot | shoot | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 same | acl:relcl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past | I | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | take up | past | I not said here | arrow | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 3 | know | past | I not said here | arrow | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | is | to-infinitive | same property | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | shoot | past · perfect · passive | which nsubj:pass; I nsubj:pass | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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