The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 15, sentence 47
When the master of the place appeared his trousers were of seven colors, as were also his jacket and the kerchief about his head.
Who acts: master, trousers · What happens: appear, be
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 (master, trousers), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 7 appeared | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 master | det |
| 3 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 appeared | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 place | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 place | det |
| 6 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 master | nmod |
| 7 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 trousers | nmod:poss |
| 9 | trousers | trousers | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 colors | nsubj |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 colors | cop |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 colors | case |
| 12 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 colors | nummod |
| 13 | colors | color | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 appeared | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 jacket | punct |
| 15 | as | as | ADP | _ | 19 jacket | case |
| 16 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 jacket | cop |
| 17 | also | also | ADV | _ | 19 jacket | advmod |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 jacket | nmod:poss |
| 19 | jacket | jacket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 colors | parataxis |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 kerchief | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 kerchief | det |
| 22 | kerchief | kerchief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 jacket | conj |
| 23 | about | about | ADP | _ | 25 head | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 head | nmod:poss |
| 25 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 kerchief | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 appeared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appear | past | the master of the place | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is | past | master's trousers | of seven colors | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | past | as master's jacket and the kerchief about master's head; master nmod:poss; the kerchief about master's head conj | tree rules |
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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