The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 15, sentence 40
The seventh time, however, it halted on the top of a large flat rock, and the boy succeeded in killing it.
Who acts: pig, boy · What happens: halt, succeed, kill · To what, where: top, 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 (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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 time | det |
| 2 | seventh | seventh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 time | amod |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 halted | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 time | punct |
| 5 | however | however | ADV | _ | 8 halted | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 however | punct |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 halted | nsubj |
| 8 | halted | halt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 top | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 top | det |
| 11 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 halted | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 rock | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 rock | det |
| 14 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 rock | amod |
| 15 | flat | flat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 rock | amod |
| 16 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 top | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 succeeded | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 succeeded | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 boy | det |
| 20 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 succeeded | nsubj |
| 21 | succeeded | succeed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 halted | conj |
| 22 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 23 killing | mark |
| 23 | killing | kill | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 succeeded | advcl |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 killing | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 halted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | halt | past | pig | the top of a large flat rock | time | however property | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||
| 2 | succeed | past | the boy | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | kill | gerund | the boy not said here | pig | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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