The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 18, sentence 69
Once upon a time a Jackal, who was prowling around the suburbs of a town, fell into an indigo-tank.
Who acts: Jackal · What happens: prowl, fall · To what, where: suburbs, indigo tank
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 (Jackal), 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 | Once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 18 fell | advmod |
| 2 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Once | obl |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 Jackal | det |
| 6 | Jackal | Jackal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 fell | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 prowling | punct |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 prowling | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 prowling | aux |
| 10 | prowling | prowl | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 Jackal | acl |
| 11 | around | around | ADP | _ | 13 suburbs | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 suburbs | det |
| 13 | suburbs | suburb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 prowling | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 town | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 town | det |
| 16 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 suburbs | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Jackal | punct |
| 18 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | into | into | ADP | _ | 23 tank | case |
| 20 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 tank | det |
| 21 | indigo | indigo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 tank | compound |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 indigo | punct |
| 23 | tank | tank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 fell | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | prowl | past · progressive | a Jackal | the suburbs of a town | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme around suburb=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | fall | past | a Jackal | into a indigo tank result; once property | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into tank=Result |
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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