The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 21, sentence 113
By this time the weasel and the crow had joined them and they seconded the invitation, so the goat accepted, and each of them swore to be a true friend to the others.
Who acts: weasel, goat, each · What happens: join, second, accept, swear, be · To what, where: weasel, invitation, true friend
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 (weasel, goat, each), 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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 joined | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 weasel | det |
| 5 | weasel | weasel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 joined | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 crow | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 crow | det |
| 8 | crow | crow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 weasel | conj |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 joined | aux |
| 10 | joined | join | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 joined | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 seconded | cc |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 seconded | nsubj |
| 14 | seconded | second | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 joined | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 invitation | det |
| 16 | invitation | invitation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 seconded | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 accepted | punct |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 21 accepted | advmod |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 goat | det |
| 20 | goat | goat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 accepted | nsubj |
| 21 | accepted | accept | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 joined | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 swore | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 swore | cc |
| 24 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 27 swore | nsubj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 them | case |
| 26 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 each | nmod |
| 27 | swore | swear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 accepted | parataxis |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 friend | mark |
| 29 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 32 friend | cop |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 friend | det |
| 31 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 friend | amod |
| 32 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 swore | advcl |
| 33 | to | to | ADP | _ | 35 others | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 others | det |
| 35 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 swore | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 joined | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | join | past · perfect · passive | the weasel and the crow | time | things = thing obj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | second | past | weasel | the invitation | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | accept | past | the goat | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | swear | past | each of things | to the others | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | is a | to-infinitive | each of things not said here | a true friend | tree rules |
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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