The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 15, sentence 116
He was an expert swimmer, and he dived to the bottom, then skimmed along the top, his queue floating on the water, and looking like an eel.
Who acts: demon, queue · What happens: be, dive, skim, float, look · To what, where: expert swimmer, bottom, water
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 (demon, queue), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 swimmer | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 swimmer | cop |
| 3 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 swimmer | det |
| 4 | expert | expert | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 swimmer | amod |
| 5 | swimmer | swimmer | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 dived | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 dived | cc |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 dived | nsubj |
| 9 | dived | dive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 swimmer | parataxis |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 bottom | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 bottom | det |
| 12 | bottom | bottom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 dived | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 skimmed | punct |
| 14 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 skimmed | advmod |
| 15 | skimmed | skim | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 dived | conj |
| 16 | along | along | ADP | _ | 18 top | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 top | det |
| 18 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 skimmed | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 queue | punct |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 queue | nmod:poss |
| 21 | queue | queue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 top | conj |
| 22 | floating | float | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 21 queue | acl |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 water | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 water | det |
| 25 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 floating | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 looking | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 looking | cc |
| 28 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 skimmed | advcl |
| 29 | like | like | ADP | _ | 31 eel | case |
| 30 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 eel | det |
| 31 | eel | eel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 looking | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 swimmer | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | demon | a expert swimmer | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | dive | past | demon | the bottom | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to bottom=Location | ||||
| 3 | skim | participle | demon not said here | then | along the top and demon's queue | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent | |||
| 4 | float | gerund | demon's queue not said here | the water | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on water=Trajectory | ||||
| 5 | look | gerund | demon not said here | like a eel | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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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