The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 19, sentence 36
The Rajah soon missed his pet, and looking about saw the two ladies caressing it.
Who acts: Rajah, looking, two ladies · What happens: miss, look, see, caress · To what, where: pet, two ladies, plumage · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Rajah, looking, two ladies), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Rajah | det |
| 2 | Rajah | Rajah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 missed | nsubj |
| 3 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 missed | advmod |
| 4 | missed | miss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 pet | nmod:poss |
| 6 | pet | pet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 missed | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 saw | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 saw | cc |
| 9 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 saw | csubj |
| 10 | about | about | ADV | _ | 9 looking | advmod |
| 11 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 missed | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 ladies | det |
| 13 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 ladies | nummod |
| 14 | ladies | lady | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 saw | obj |
| 15 | caressing | caress | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 ladies | acl |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 caressing | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 missed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | miss | past | the Rajah | Rajah's pet | soon property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pet=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | look | gerund | about property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | see | past | looking | the two ladies | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lady=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | caress | gerund | the two ladies not said here | plumage | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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