The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 18, sentence 87
“And when he yells, the lions and tigers will know him to be a jackal, and fall upon him.”
Who acts: dog, lions · What happens: yell, know, be, fall · To what, where: dog, jackal
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 (dog, lions), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 know | punct |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 know | cc |
| 3 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 5 yells | mark |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 yells | nsubj |
| 5 | yells | yell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 know | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 yells | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 lions | det |
| 8 | lions | lion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 know | nsubj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 tigers | cc |
| 10 | tigers | tiger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 lions | conj |
| 11 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 know | aux |
| 12 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 know | obj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 jackal | mark |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 jackal | cop |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 jackal | det |
| 17 | jackal | jackal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 know | advcl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 fall | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 fall | cc |
| 20 | fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 know | parataxis |
| 21 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 22 him | case |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 fall | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 know | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yell speech: express in a quote | present | dog | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | know in a quote | future | the lions and tigers | dog | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | to-infinitive | the lions and tigers not said here | a jackal | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | fall in a quote | infinitive | upon dog | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon he=Location |
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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