The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 16, sentence 22
The messenger soon returned with a skin which proved to be just the right size, and into this Sin was put, leaving out only his hands and feet.
Who acts: messenger, skin · What happens: return, prove, be, put, leave out · To what, where: right size, Sin, hands
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (messenger, skin), 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 messenger | det |
| 2 | messenger | messenger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 returned | nsubj |
| 3 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 returned | advmod |
| 4 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 skin | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 skin | det |
| 7 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 returned | obl |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 proved | nsubj |
| 9 | proved | prove | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 skin | acl:relcl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 size | mark |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 size | cop |
| 12 | just | just | ADV | _ | 15 size | advmod |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 size | det |
| 14 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 size | amod |
| 15 | size | size | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 proved | ccomp |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 put | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 put | cc |
| 18 | into | into | ADP | _ | 20 Sin | case |
| 19 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 Sin | det |
| 20 | Sin | Sin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 put | obl |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 put | aux:pass |
| 22 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 returned | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 leaving | punct |
| 24 | leaving | leave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 put | advcl |
| 25 | out | out | ADP | _ | 24 leaving | compound:prt |
| 26 | only | only | ADV | _ | 28 hands | advmod |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 hands | nmod:poss |
| 28 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 leaving | obj |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 feet | cc |
| 30 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 hands | conj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past | the messenger | with a skin; soon property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | prove | past | a skin | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a | to-infinitive | a skin not said here | the right size | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | put | past · passive | the messenger not said here | this Sin | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP» | ||||
| 5 | leave out | gerund | the messenger not said here | messenger's hands and feet | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=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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