The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 18, sentence 114
Then immediately each shows his teeth and wags his tail to prove that he is not the guilty one.
Who acts: each, dog · What happens: show, wag, prove, not be · To what, where: teeth, tail, guilty one
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (each, dog), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 shows | advmod |
| 2 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 4 shows | advmod |
| 3 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 shows | nsubj |
| 4 | shows | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 teeth | nmod:poss |
| 6 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 shows | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 wags | cc |
| 8 | wags | wag | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 shows | conj |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 tail | nmod:poss |
| 10 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 wags | obj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 prove | mark |
| 12 | prove | prove | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 wags | advcl |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 one | mark |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 one | nsubj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 one | cop |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 one | advmod |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 one | det |
| 18 | guilty | guilty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 one | amod |
| 19 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 prove | ccomp |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 shows | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | present | each | dog's teeth | then | immediately property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tooth=Recipient | ||
| 2 | wag | present | each not said here | dog's tail | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Patient | ||||
| 3 | prove | to-infinitive | each not said here | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | not is a | present | dog | the guilty one | tree rules |
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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