The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 2, sentence 17
He raised his head, and saw, sitting upon the bough of a large tree, the real bird whom he had banished from his kingdom.
Who acts: life · What happens: raise, see, sit, banish · To what, where: head, bough, real bird, kingdom
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 (life), 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 raised | nsubj |
| 2 | raised | raise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 head | nmod:poss |
| 4 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 raised | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 saw | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 saw | cc |
| 7 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 raised | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 sitting | punct |
| 9 | sitting | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 saw | xcomp |
| 10 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 12 bough | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 bough | det |
| 12 | bough | bough | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sitting | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 tree | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 tree | det |
| 15 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 tree | amod |
| 16 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 bough | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 bird | punct |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 bird | det |
| 19 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 bird | amod |
| 20 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 bough | conj |
| 21 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 banished | obj |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 banished | nsubj |
| 23 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 banished | aux |
| 24 | banished | banish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 bird | acl:relcl |
| 25 | from | from | ADP | _ | 27 kingdom | case |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 kingdom | nmod:poss |
| 27 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 banished | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 raised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | raise | past | life | life's head | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | past | life not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | sit | gerund | life not said here | the bough of a large tree and the real bird | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon bough=Location | ||||
| 4 | banish | past · perfect | life | the real bird | life's kingdom | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent whom=Theme from kingdom=Source |
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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