The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 15, sentence 44
“I was hunting, as I often do, and when my dog found the pig I helped him to catch it.”
Who acts: son, dog · What happens: hunt, do, find, help, catch · To what, where: pig, dog
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 (son, dog), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 hunting | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 hunting | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 hunting | aux |
| 4 | hunting | hunt | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 do | punct |
| 6 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 9 do | mark |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 do | nsubj |
| 8 | often | often | ADV | _ | 9 do | advmod |
| 9 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 hunting | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 helped | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 helped | cc |
| 12 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 found | advmod |
| 13 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 dog | nmod:poss |
| 14 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 found | nsubj |
| 15 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 helped | advcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 pig | det |
| 17 | pig | pig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 found | obj |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 helped | nsubj |
| 19 | helped | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 hunting | conj |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 helped | obj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 catch | mark |
| 22 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 helped | xcomp |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 catch | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 hunting | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 hunting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hunt in a quote | past · progressive | the widow's son = son | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | do in a quote | present | the widow's son = son | often property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | find in a quote | past | my dog | the pig | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pig=Topic | ||||
| 4 | help in a quote | past | the widow's son = son | dog | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary clause=Theme | ||||
| 5 | catch in a quote | to-infinitive | dog not said here | pig | vn get-13.5.1 «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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