The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 15, sentence 112
But soon his tongue again became parched; his skin burned, and pains pierced his head.
Who acts: tongue, skin, pains · What happens: become, parch, burn, pierce · To what, where: head
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 (tongue, skin, pains), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 became | cc |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 tongue | advmod |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 tongue | nmod:poss |
| 4 | tongue | tongue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 became | nsubj |
| 5 | again | again | ADV | _ | 6 became | advmod |
| 6 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | parched | parch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 became | xcomp |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 burned | punct |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 skin | nmod:poss |
| 10 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 burned | nsubj |
| 11 | burned | burn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 became | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 pierced | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 pierced | cc |
| 14 | pains | pain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 pierced | nsubj |
| 15 | pierced | pierce | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 burned | conj |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 head | nmod:poss |
| 17 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 pierced | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 became | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | past | Chance's tongue | again | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | parch | participle | Chance's tongue not said here | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | burn | past | Chance's skin | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | pierce | past | pains | Chance's head | vn poke-19-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient |
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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