The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 15, sentence 39
Six times the pig stopped just long enough for the boy to take aim, and then started on before he could throw.
Who acts: pig, boy · What happens: stop, take, start, throw · To what, where: 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 (pig, boy), 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 | Six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 times | nummod |
| 2 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 stopped | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 pig | det |
| 4 | pig | pig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stopped | nsubj |
| 5 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | just | just | ADV | _ | 7 long | advmod |
| 7 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 stopped | advmod |
| 8 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 7 long | advmod |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 boy | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 boy | det |
| 11 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stopped | obl |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 take | mark |
| 13 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 stopped | advcl |
| 14 | aim | aim | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 take | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 started | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 started | cc |
| 17 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 started | advmod |
| 18 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 stopped | conj |
| 19 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 23 throw | mark |
| 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 | 18 started | advcl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 stopped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | past | the pig | time | for the boy; long property | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | take | to-infinitive | the pig not said here | aim | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent aim=Theme | ||||
| 3 | start | past | the pig not said here | then | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | throw | could | boy | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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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