The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 15, sentence 36
As he drew near he could see that the game was a fine large pig, all black save its four legs, which were white.
Who acts: distance, game, four legs · What happens: draw, see, be · To what, where: fine large pig
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, game, four legs), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 drew | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 drew | nsubj |
| 3 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | near | near | ADP | _ | 7 see | mark |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 see | nsubj |
| 6 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 see | aux |
| 7 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 drew | ccomp |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 pig | mark |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 game | det |
| 10 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 pig | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 pig | cop |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 pig | det |
| 13 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 pig | amod |
| 14 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 pig | amod |
| 15 | pig | pig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 see | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 black | punct |
| 17 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 black | det |
| 18 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 pig | amod |
| 19 | save | save | ADP | _ | 22 legs | case |
| 20 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 legs | nmod:poss |
| 21 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 legs | nummod |
| 22 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 black | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 white | punct |
| 24 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 white | nsubj |
| 25 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 white | cop |
| 26 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 legs | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 drew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw | past | distance | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | see | could | distance | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is a | past | the game | a fine large pig | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is | past | game's four legs | white property | tree rules |
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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