The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 21, sentence 103
They soon saw that it was a goat, who was evidently being pursued, so, as a matter of safety, each of them sought a place of refuge.
Who acts: FRIENDS, animal, each, safety · What happens: see, be, pursue, seek, matter · To what, where: goat, place · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (FRIENDS, animal, each, safety), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 saw | nsubj |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 saw | advmod |
| 3 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 goat | mark |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 goat | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 goat | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 goat | det |
| 8 | goat | goat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | ccomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 pursued | punct |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 pursued | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 pursued | aux |
| 12 | evidently | evidently | ADV | _ | 14 pursued | advmod |
| 13 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 pursued | aux:pass |
| 14 | pursued | pursue | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 goat | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 so | punct |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 3 saw | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 matter | punct |
| 18 | as | as | ADP | _ | 20 matter | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 matter | det |
| 20 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 safety | case |
| 22 | safety | safety | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 matter | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 sought | punct |
| 24 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 27 sought | nsubj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 them | case |
| 26 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 each | nmod |
| 27 | sought | seek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 saw | conj |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 place | det |
| 29 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 sought | obj |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 refuge | case |
| 31 | refuge | refuge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 place | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | FRIENDS = friend | as a matter of safety; soon property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer as matter=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | animal | a goat | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | pursue | past · progressive · passive | a goat | evidently property | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 4 | seek | past | each of FRIENDS | a place of refuge | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme | ||||
| 5 | matter | safety | nom matter «cognition 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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