The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 19, sentence 23
While at luncheon his attention was attracted to a bird of brilliant red plumage which was perched on the branch of a tree.
Who acts: Varna · What happens: attract, perch, attend · To what, where: luncheon, brilliant red plumage, branch
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 (Varna), 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 | While | while | SCONJ | _ | 3 luncheon | mark |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 3 luncheon | case |
| 3 | luncheon | luncheon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 attracted | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 attention | nmod:poss |
| 5 | attention | attention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 luncheon | obj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 attracted | aux:pass |
| 7 | attracted | attract | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 bird | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 bird | det |
| 10 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 attracted | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 plumage | case |
| 12 | brilliant | brilliant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 plumage | amod |
| 13 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 plumage | amod |
| 14 | plumage | plumage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 bird | nmod |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 perched | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 perched | aux:pass |
| 17 | perched | perch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 plumage | acl:relcl |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 branch | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 branch | det |
| 20 | branch | branch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 perched | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 tree | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 tree | det |
| 23 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 branch | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 attracted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | attract | past · passive | luncheon Varna's attention | to a bird of brilliant red plumage result | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP PP.result»: subject=Patient to bird=Result | ||||
| 2 | perch | past · passive | brilliant red plumage | the branch of a tree | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme on branch=Destination | ||||
| 3 | attend | Varna | nom attention «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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