The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 20, sentence 87
And immediately the headless corpse arose and sat beside Rajah Rasalu.
Who acts: headless corpse · What happens: arise, sit · To what, where: Rajah
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (headless corpse), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 arose | cc |
| 2 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 6 arose | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 corpse | det |
| 4 | headless | headless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 corpse | amod |
| 5 | corpse | corpse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 arose | nsubj |
| 6 | arose | arise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 sat | cc |
| 8 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 arose | conj |
| 9 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 10 Rajah | case |
| 10 | Rajah | Rajah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 sat | obl |
| 11 | Rasalu | Rasalu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Rajah | flat |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 arose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arise | past | the headless corpse | immediately property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | sit | past | the headless corpse not said here | Rajah | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beside rajah=Location |
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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