The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 15, sentence 38
The boy went on in hot pursuit, and when the pig paused he again took aim, but before he could throw, it ran on.
Who acts: boy, pig · What happens: go on, pause, take, throw, run on · To what, where: hot pursuit, aim
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 (boy, pig), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 boy | det |
| 2 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 3 went | compound:prt |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 pursuit | case |
| 6 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 pursuit | amod |
| 7 | pursuit | pursuit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 paused | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 paused | cc |
| 10 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 paused | advmod |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 pig | det |
| 12 | pig | pig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 paused | nsubj |
| 13 | paused | pause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 took | nsubj |
| 15 | again | again | ADV | _ | 16 took | advmod |
| 16 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 paused | ccomp |
| 17 | aim | aim | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 took | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 ran | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 ran | cc |
| 20 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 23 throw | mark |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 throw | nsubj |
| 22 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 throw | aux |
| 23 | throw | throw | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 ran | advcl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 throw | punct |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 ran | nsubj |
| 26 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 27 | on | on | ADV | _ | 26 ran | advmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go on | past | the boy | hot pursuit | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in pursuit=Location | ||||
| 2 | pause | past | the pig | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | take | past | boy | aim | again | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent aim=Theme | |||
| 4 | throw | could | boy | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | run on | past | pig | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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