The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 16, sentence 39
So Sin just pulled off a little piece that was wriggling about, and it tasted so good, that he couldn’t resist taking the rest of it, so he greedily swallowed the whole worm.
Who acts: Sin, little piece, piece · What happens: pull off, wriggle, taste, not resist, take, swallow · To what, where: little piece, rest, whole worm
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 (Sin, little piece, piece), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 pulled | advmod |
| 2 | Sin | Sin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 pulled | nsubj |
| 3 | just | just | ADV | _ | 4 pulled | advmod |
| 4 | pulled | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | off | off | ADP | _ | 4 pulled | compound:prt |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 piece | det |
| 7 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 piece | amod |
| 8 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pulled | obj |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 wriggling | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 wriggling | aux |
| 11 | wriggling | wriggle | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 piece | acl:relcl |
| 12 | about | about | ADV | _ | 11 wriggling | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 tasted | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 tasted | cc |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 tasted | nsubj |
| 16 | tasted | taste | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 pulled | parataxis |
| 17 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 good | advmod |
| 18 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 tasted | xcomp |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 resist | punct |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 resist | mark |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 resist | nsubj |
| 22 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 resist | aux |
| 23 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 resist | advmod |
| 24 | resist | resist | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 tasted | conj |
| 25 | taking | take | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 24 resist | obj |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 rest | det |
| 27 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 taking | obj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 it | case |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 rest | nmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 swallowed | punct |
| 31 | so | so | ADV | _ | 34 swallowed | advmod |
| 32 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 swallowed | nsubj |
| 33 | greedily | greedily | ADV | _ | 34 swallowed | advmod |
| 34 | swallowed | swallow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 pulled | conj |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 worm | det |
| 36 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 worm | amod |
| 37 | worm | worm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 swallowed | obj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 pulled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pull off | past | Sin | a little piece | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | wriggle | past · progressive | a little piece | about property | vn body_internal_motion-49.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | taste | past | piece | good property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | not resist | could | Sin | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | take | gerund | the rest of piece | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rest=Theme | |||||
| 6 | swallow | past | Sin | the whole worm | greedily property | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent worm=Patient |
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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