The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 14, sentence 70
The lions will be so busy eating they will let you pass unmolested.”
Who acts: lions, eating, you · What happens: be, eat, let, pass · To what, where: lions, you
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lions, eating, you), 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 lions | det |
| 2 | lions | lion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 busy | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 busy | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 busy | cop |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 busy | advmod |
| 6 | busy | busy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | eating | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 let | csubj |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 eating | obj |
| 9 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 let | aux |
| 10 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 busy | parataxis |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 let | obj |
| 12 | pass | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 let | xcomp |
| 13 | unmolested | unmolested | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 pass | xcomp |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 busy | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 busy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | future | the lions | busy property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | eat | gerund | lions = lion | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | |||||
| 3 | let | future | eating | you | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | pass | infinitive | you not said here | unmolested property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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