The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 16, sentence 28
Now, if ever you see a worm dangling in the water in the shape of a hook, leave it alone, or you will be a dead fish; and if you see a net before you, turn around, and swim the other way.”
Who acts: you, worm · What happens: see, dangle, leave, be, turn around, swim · To what, where: worm, water, dead fish, net, other way
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 (you, worm), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 leave | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Now | punct |
| 3 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 see | mark |
| 4 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 6 see | advmod |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 see | nsubj |
| 6 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 leave | advcl |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 worm | det |
| 8 | worm | worm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 see | obj |
| 9 | dangling | dangle | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 worm | acl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 water | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 water | det |
| 12 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 dangling | obl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 shape | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 shape | det |
| 15 | shape | shape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 dangling | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 hook | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 hook | det |
| 18 | hook | hook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 shape | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 see | punct |
| 20 | leave | leave | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 leave | obj |
| 22 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 20 leave | advmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 fish | punct |
| 24 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 30 fish | cc |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 30 fish | nsubj |
| 26 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 fish | aux |
| 27 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 30 fish | cop |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 fish | det |
| 29 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 fish | amod |
| 30 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 leave | conj |
| 31 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 41 turn | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 turn | cc |
| 33 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 35 see | mark |
| 34 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 35 see | nsubj |
| 35 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 41 turn | advcl |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 net | det |
| 37 | net | net | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 see | obj |
| 38 | before | before | ADP | _ | 39 you | case |
| 39 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 35 see | obl |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 see | punct |
| 41 | turn | turn | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 20 leave | conj |
| 42 | around | around | ADV | _ | 41 turn | advmod |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 swim | punct |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 swim | cc |
| 45 | swim | swim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 41 turn | conj |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 way | det |
| 47 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 48 way | amod |
| 48 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 swim | obj |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 41 turn | punct |
| 50 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 41 turn | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see a condition, not said to happen | present | you | a worm | ever | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer worm=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | dangle | gerund | a worm not said here | the water | in the shape of a hook | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in water=Location | |||
| 3 | leave | imperative | you not said here | worm | now | alone property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||
| 4 | is a | future | you | a dead fish | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | see a condition, not said to happen | present | you | a net | before you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer net=Stimulus | |||
| 6 | turn around | infinitive | you not said here | around property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | swim | present | you not said here | the other way | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme way=Trajectory |
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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