The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 15, sentence 41
He tied its legs together with a piece of rattan and was about to start for home with the pig on his back, when to his surprise a door in the large stone swung open and a man stepped out.
Who acts: boy, door · What happens: tie, be, start, swing, step out, surprise · To what, where: legs, man, surprise
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, door), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 tied | nsubj |
| 2 | tied | tie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 legs | nmod:poss |
| 4 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 tied | obj |
| 5 | together | together | ADV | _ | 2 tied | advmod |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 piece | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 piece | det |
| 8 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 tied | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 rattan | case |
| 10 | rattan | rattan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 piece | nmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 about | cc |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 about | cop |
| 13 | about | about | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 tied | conj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 start | mark |
| 15 | start | start | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 about | xcomp |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 home | case |
| 17 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 start | obl |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 pig | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 pig | det |
| 20 | pig | pig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 start | obl |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 back | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 back | nmod:poss |
| 23 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 pig | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 swung | punct |
| 25 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 35 swung | advmod |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 surprise | case |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 surprise | nmod:poss |
| 28 | surprise | surprise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 swung | obl |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 door | det |
| 30 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 swung | nsubj |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 stone | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 stone | det |
| 33 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 stone | amod |
| 34 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 door | nmod |
| 35 | swung | swing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 tied | conj |
| 36 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 swung | xcomp |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 man | cc |
| 38 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 man | det |
| 39 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 swung | obl |
| 40 | stepped | step | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 39 man | acl |
| 41 | out | out | ADP | _ | 40 stepped | compound:prt |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 tied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tie | past | boy | pig's legs | with a piece of rattan; together property | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent leg=Patient with piece=Co-Patient | |||
| 2 | is | past | boy not said here | about property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | start | to-infinitive | boy not said here | for home; with the pig on boy's back | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with pig=Subeventuality | ||||
| 4 | swing | past | a door in the large stone | a man | boy's surprise | open property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to surprise=Trajectory | ||
| 5 | step out | participle | a man not said here | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | surprise | boy | nom surprise «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
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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