The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 2, sentence 51
Vira-vara had not gone far when he almost stumbled over a woman who was weeping bitterly.
Who acts: Vira vara, King, woman · What happens: not go, stumble, weep
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 (Vira vara, King, woman), 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 | Vira | Vira | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 vara | compound |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Vira | punct |
| 3 | vara | vara | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 gone | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 gone | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 gone | advmod |
| 6 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 gone | advmod |
| 8 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 stumbled | advmod |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 stumbled | nsubj |
| 10 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 11 stumbled | advmod |
| 11 | stumbled | stumble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 gone | advcl |
| 12 | over | over | ADP | _ | 14 woman | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 woman | det |
| 14 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 stumbled | obl |
| 15 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 weeping | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 weeping | aux |
| 17 | weeping | weep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 woman | acl:relcl |
| 18 | bitterly | bitterly | ADV | _ | 17 weeping | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 gone | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not go | past · perfect | Vira vara | far property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | stumble | past | King | over a woman; almost property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over woman=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | weep | past · progressive | a woman | bitterly property | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=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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