The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 2, sentence 123
The sentence was about to be carried out when there came another interruption, this time from the real murderer, who happened to be present.
Who acts: sentence, real murderer · What happens: be, carry out, come, happen · To what, where: interruption
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sentence, real murderer), 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 sentence | det |
| 2 | sentence | sentence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 about | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 about | cop |
| 4 | about | about | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 carried | mark |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 carried | aux:pass |
| 7 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 about | xcomp |
| 8 | out | out | ADP | _ | 7 carried | compound:prt |
| 9 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 came | advmod |
| 10 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 11 came | expl |
| 11 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 carried | advcl |
| 12 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 interruption | det |
| 13 | interruption | interruption | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 came | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 time | punct |
| 15 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 time | det |
| 16 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 interruption | appos |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 murderer | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 murderer | det |
| 19 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 murderer | amod |
| 20 | murderer | murderer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 time | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 happened | punct |
| 22 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 happened | nsubj |
| 23 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 murderer | acl:relcl |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 present | mark |
| 25 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 present | cop |
| 26 | present | present | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 happened | xcomp |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 about | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the sentence | about property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | carry out | to-infinitive · passive | the sentence not said here | vn act-114 «NP V NP» | |||||
| 3 | come | past | the sentence not said here | another interruption | there | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location interruption=Theme | |||
| 4 | happen | past | the real murderer | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | is | to-infinitive | the real murderer not said here | present property | tree rules |
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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