The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 18, sentence 72
When the dyer was far enough away the Jackal scrambled to his feet, and looking himself over found his color changed to a beautiful blue.
Who acts: dyer, Jackal, looking, color · What happens: be, scramble, look over, find, change · To what, where: feet, JACKAL · Speech: someone speaks here
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, Jackal, looking, color), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 7 away | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 dyer | det |
| 3 | dyer | dyer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 away | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 away | cop |
| 5 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 away | advmod |
| 6 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 7 away | advmod |
| 7 | away | away | ADV | _ | 10 scrambled | advcl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Jackal | det |
| 9 | Jackal | Jackal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 scrambled | nsubj |
| 10 | scrambled | scramble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 feet | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 feet | nmod:poss |
| 13 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 scrambled | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 found | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 found | cc |
| 16 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 found | csubj |
| 17 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 16 looking | obj |
| 18 | over | over | ADP | _ | 16 looking | compound:prt |
| 19 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 scrambled | conj |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 color | nmod:poss |
| 21 | color | color | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 changed | nsubj |
| 22 | changed | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 found | ccomp |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 blue | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 blue | det |
| 25 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 blue | amod |
| 26 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 changed | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 scrambled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the dyer | away, enough, far property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | scramble | past | the Jackal | JACKAL's feet | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to foot=Destination | ||||
| 3 | look over | gerund | JACKAL | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme himself=Attribute | |||||
| 4 | find | past | looking | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | change | past | JACKAL's color | to a beautiful blue result | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Agent to blue=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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