The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 15, sentence 58
The leader, who was dressed all in red, with red eyes to match, spoke first, asking the boy where he was going.
Who acts: leader, boy · What happens: dress, match, speak, ask, go · To what, where: leader, red, boy · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (leader, 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 | 2 leader | det |
| 2 | leader | leader | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 spoke | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 dressed | punct |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 dressed | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 dressed | aux:pass |
| 6 | dressed | dress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 leader | acl |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 dressed | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 red | case |
| 9 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 dressed | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 eyes | punct |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 eyes | case |
| 12 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 eyes | amod |
| 13 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 dressed | obl |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 match | mark |
| 15 | match | match | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 eyes | acl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 leader | punct |
| 17 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 17 spoke | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 asking | punct |
| 20 | asking | ask | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 spoke | advcl |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 boy | det |
| 22 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 asking | obj |
| 23 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 26 going | advmod |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 going | nsubj |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 going | aux |
| 26 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 boy | acl:relcl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 spoke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dress | past · passive | the leader | red | with red eyes | tree rules | |||
| 2 | match | to-infinitive | vn amalgamate-22.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | speak speech: other | past | the leader | first property | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | gerund | the leader not said here | the boy | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent boy=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | go | past · progressive | boy | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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