The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 15, sentence 72
He looked around for his antagonist, and seeing only the widow’s son he roared:
Who acts: giant · What happens: look around, see, roar · To what, where: son
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 (giant), 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 looked | nsubj |
| 2 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | around | around | ADV | _ | 2 looked | advmod |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 antagonist | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 antagonist | nmod:poss |
| 6 | antagonist | antagonist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 looked | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 roared | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 roared | cc |
| 9 | seeing | see | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 roared | csubj |
| 10 | only | only | ADV | _ | 14 son | advmod |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 widow | det |
| 12 | widow | widow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 son | nmod:poss |
| 13 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 12 widow | case |
| 14 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 seeing | obl |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 roared | nsubj |
| 16 | roared | roar | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 looked | conj |
| 17 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 2 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look around | past | giant | for giant's antagonist; around property | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for antagonist=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | gerund | the widow's son | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | roar | past | giant | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location |
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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