The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 18, sentence 71

In due time the dyer came to the tank, and finding what he supposed to be a dead Jackal, took him out and threw him into the jungle.

Who acts: dyer · What happens: come, find, suppose, be, take out, throw · To what, where: tank, dead Jackal, JACKAL, jungle

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 (dyer), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 time	case
2	due	due	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 time	amod
3	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 came	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 dyer	det
5	dyer	dyer	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 came	nsubj
6	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 tank	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 tank	det
9	tank	tank	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 came	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 finding	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 finding	cc
12	finding	find	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 came	advcl
13	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	12 finding	obj
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 supposed	nsubj
15	supposed	suppose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 what	acl:relcl
16	to	to	PART	_	20 Jackal	mark
17	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 Jackal	cop
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 Jackal	det
19	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 Jackal	amod
20	Jackal	Jackal	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 supposed	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 took	punct
22	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 came	conj
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 took	obj
24	out	out	ADP	_	22 took	compound:prt
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 threw	cc
26	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 took	conj
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 threw	obj
28	into	into	ADP	_	30 jungle	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 jungle	det
30	jungle	jungle	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 threw	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	the dyer		the tank	time		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to tank=Initial_Location
2	find	gerund	the dyer not said here				what obj	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic
3	suppose	past	dyer					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
4	is a	to-infinitive		a dead Jackal				tree rules
5	take out	past	the dyer not said here	JACKAL				vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
6	throw	past	the dyer not said here	JACKAL			into the jungle result	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer he=Theme into jungle=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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🌲 The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 18, sentence 71

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The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 18, sentence 71