The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 19, sentence 108
He rushed upon the old man, who merely laughed and then turned into a beautiful white bird and flew away.
Who acts: Korkwi, old man · What happens: rush, laugh, turn, fly away
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Korkwi, old man), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 rushed | nsubj |
| 2 | rushed | rush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 6 man | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 man | det |
| 5 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 man | amod |
| 6 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 rushed | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 laughed | punct |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 laughed | nsubj |
| 9 | merely | merely | ADV | _ | 10 laughed | advmod |
| 10 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 man | acl:relcl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 turned | cc |
| 12 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 turned | advmod |
| 13 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 laughed | conj |
| 14 | into | into | ADP | _ | 18 bird | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 bird | det |
| 16 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 bird | amod |
| 17 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 bird | amod |
| 18 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 turned | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 flew | cc |
| 20 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 turned | conj |
| 21 | away | away | ADV | _ | 20 flew | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 rushed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rush | past | Korkwi | upon the old man | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon man=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | laugh | past | the old man | merely property | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | turn | past | the old man not said here | then | into a beautiful white bird result | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into bird=Result | |||
| 4 | fly away | past | the old man not said here | away property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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