The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 17, sentence 96
There was only one boatman in it, and he had the head of an elephant and the body of a tiger.
Who acts: one boatman, boatman · What happens: be, have · To what, where: head
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one boatman, boatman), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 was | expl |
| 2 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 5 boatman | advmod |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 boatman | nummod |
| 5 | boatman | boatman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | nsubj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 it | case |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 boatman | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 had | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 had | cc |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 had | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 was | parataxis |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 head | det |
| 13 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 had | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 elephant | case |
| 15 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 elephant | det |
| 16 | elephant | elephant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 head | nmod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 body | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 body | det |
| 19 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 head | conj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 tiger | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 tiger | det |
| 22 | tiger | tiger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 body | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | one boatman in boat | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | have | past | boatman | the head of a elephant and the body of a tiger | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=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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