The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 15, sentence 101
When the doctor arrived, his patient was in a high fever, so he at once prescribed a mixture of powdered deer horns and dragon’s blood, and pills made from hare’s liver, these medicines to be taken at intervals.
Who acts: doctor, patient · What happens: arrive, be, prescribe, powder, make, take · To what, where: high fever, mixture, pills, liver, intervals
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (doctor, patient), 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 | SCONJ | _ | 4 arrived | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 doctor | det |
| 3 | doctor | doctor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 arrived | nsubj |
| 4 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 fever | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 arrived | punct |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 patient | nmod:poss |
| 7 | patient | patient | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 fever | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 fever | cop |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 fever | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 fever | det |
| 11 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 fever | amod |
| 12 | fever | fever | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 prescribed | punct |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 prescribed | advmod |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 prescribed | nsubj |
| 16 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 18 prescribed | mark |
| 17 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 18 prescribed | advmod |
| 18 | prescribed | prescribe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 fever | parataxis |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 mixture | det |
| 20 | mixture | mixture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 prescribed | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 horns | case |
| 22 | powdered | powder | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 horns | amod |
| 23 | deer | deer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 horns | compound |
| 24 | horns | horn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 mixture | nmod |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 blood | cc |
| 26 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 blood | nmod:poss |
| 27 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 26 dragon | case |
| 28 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 horns | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 taken | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 taken | cc |
| 31 | pills | pill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 32 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 pills | acl |
| 33 | from | from | ADP | _ | 36 liver | case |
| 34 | hare | hare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 liver | nmod:poss |
| 35 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 34 hare | case |
| 36 | liver | liver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 made | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 medicines | punct |
| 38 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 39 medicines | det |
| 39 | medicines | medicine | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 40 | to | to | PART | _ | 42 taken | mark |
| 41 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 42 taken | aux:pass |
| 42 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 prescribed | conj |
| 43 | at | at | ADP | _ | 44 intervals | case |
| 44 | intervals | interval | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 taken | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 fever | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrive | past | the doctor | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is | past | doctor's patient | a high fever | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | prescribe | participle | doctor | a mixture of powdered deer horns and dragon's blood | once property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | powder | participle | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | make | participle | pills not said here | hare's liver | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset from liver=Material | ||||
| 6 | take | to-infinitive · passive | pills | intervals | this medicines nsubj:pass | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: subject=Theme at interval=Asset |
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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