The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 21, sentence 102
Three great friends, a tortoise, a weasel and a crow, were talking together one fine day when they were disturbed by the noise of an animal who was coming their way in great haste.
Who acts: Three great friends, noise, animal · What happens: talk, disturb, come, noise · To what, where: FRIENDS, way, great haste
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Three great friends, noise, animal), 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 | Three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 friends | nummod |
| 2 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 friends | amod |
| 3 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 talking | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 tortoise | punct |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 tortoise | det |
| 6 | tortoise | tortoise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 friends | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 weasel | punct |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 weasel | det |
| 9 | weasel | weasel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 friends | conj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 crow | cc |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 crow | det |
| 12 | crow | crow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 weasel | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 friends | punct |
| 14 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 talking | aux |
| 15 | talking | talk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 16 | together | together | ADV | _ | 15 talking | advmod |
| 17 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 day | nummod |
| 18 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 day | amod |
| 19 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 talking | obl:unmarked |
| 20 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 23 disturbed | mark |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 disturbed | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 disturbed | aux:pass |
| 23 | disturbed | disturb | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 talking | advcl |
| 24 | by | by | ADP | _ | 26 noise | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 noise | det |
| 26 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 disturbed | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 animal | case |
| 28 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 animal | det |
| 29 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 noise | nmod |
| 30 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 coming | nsubj |
| 31 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 coming | aux |
| 32 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 29 animal | acl:relcl |
| 33 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 way | nmod:poss |
| 34 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 coming | obl:unmarked |
| 35 | in | in | ADP | _ | 37 haste | case |
| 36 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 haste | amod |
| 37 | haste | haste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 coming | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 talking | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | talk | past · progressive | Three great friends and a tortoise and a weasel and a crow | day | together property | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | disturb | past · passive | the noise of a animal | FRIENDS = friend | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | come | past · progressive | a animal | FRIENDS's way | great haste | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in haste=Location | |||
| 4 | noise | a animal | nom noise «event intransitive»: of=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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