The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 19, sentence 26
In the open palm of his hand were more crumbs, and the bird actually hopped towards him and ate these too.
Who acts: bird · What happens: be, hop, eat · To what, where: crumbs, open palm, these
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 (bird), 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 | _ | 4 palm | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 palm | det |
| 3 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 palm | amod |
| 4 | palm | palm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 crumbs | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 hand | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 hand | nmod:poss |
| 7 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 palm | nmod |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 crumbs | cop |
| 9 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 10 crumbs | advmod |
| 10 | crumbs | crumb | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 hopped | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 hopped | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 bird | det |
| 14 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 hopped | nsubj |
| 15 | actually | actually | ADV | _ | 16 hopped | advmod |
| 16 | hopped | hop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 crumbs | parataxis |
| 17 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 18 him | case |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 hopped | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 ate | cc |
| 20 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 hopped | conj |
| 21 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 20 ate | obj |
| 22 | too | too | ADV | _ | 20 ate | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 crumbs | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | crumbs | the open palm of luncheon's hand | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hop | past | the bird | towards luncheon; actually property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards he=Destination | ||||
| 3 | eat | past | the bird not said here | these | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Patient |
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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