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The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 15, sentence 35

But even as he pondered he heard his dog barking sharply, and cramming the betel-nut into his mouth he leaped up and ran toward the dog.

Who acts: distance · What happens: ponder, hear, bark, cram, leap up, run · To what, where: dog, betel nut, mouth

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 (distance), 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

ccadvmodmarknsubjnsubjconjnmod:possobjadvcladvmodpunctcccsubjdetcompoundpunctobjcasenmod:possoblnsubjparataxiscompound:prtccconjcasedetoblpunctrootButCCONJevenADVasSCONJhePRONponderedVERBhePRONheardVERBhisPRONdogNOUNbarkingVERBsharplyADV,PUNCTandCCONJcrammingVERBtheDETbetelNOUN-PUNCTnutNOUNintoADPhisPRONmouthNOUNhePRONleapedVERBupADPandCCONJranVERBtowardADPtheDETdogNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ButbutCCONJ_5 ponderedcc
2evenevenADV_5 ponderedadvmod
3asasSCONJ_5 ponderedmark
4hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs5 ponderednsubj
5ponderedponderVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
6hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs7 heardnsubj
7heardhearVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin5 ponderedconj
8hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs9 dognmod:poss
9dogdogNOUNNumber=Sing7 heardobj
10barkingbarkVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part7 heardadvcl
11sharplysharplyADV_10 barkingadvmod
12,,PUNCT_23 leapedpunct
13andandCCONJ_23 leapedcc
14crammingcramVERBVerbForm=Ger23 leapedcsubj
15thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art18 nutdet
16betelbetelNOUNNumber=Sing18 nutcompound
17--PUNCT_16 betelpunct
18nutnutNOUNNumber=Sing14 crammingobj
19intointoADP_21 mouthcase
20hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs21 mouthnmod:poss
21mouthmouthNOUNNumber=Sing14 crammingobl
22hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs23 leapednsubj
23leapedleapVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin5 ponderedparataxis
24upupADP_23 leapedcompound:prt
25andandCCONJ_26 rancc
26ranrunVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin23 leapedconj
27towardtowardADP_29 dogcase
28thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art29 dogdet
29dogdogNOUNNumber=Sing26 ranobl
30..PUNCT_5 ponderedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1ponderpastdistancevn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2hearpastdistancedistance's dogvn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer dog=Stimulus
3barkgerunddistance not said heresharply propertyvn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4cramgerundthe betel nutdistance's mouthvn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent nut=Theme into mouth=Destination
5leap uppastdistancevn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6runpastdistance not said heretoward the dogvn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme toward dog=Trajectory

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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