The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 21, sentence 117
He at once reported his discovery to his friends, and their sorrow upon receiving the news of the goat’s capture was great.
Who acts: goat, sorrow, capture, FRIENDS · What happens: report, receive, be, discover, sorrow, capture · To what, where: discovery, friends, news
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 (goat, sorrow, capture, FRIENDS), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 reported | nsubj |
| 2 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 4 reported | mark |
| 3 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 4 reported | advmod |
| 4 | reported | report | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 discovery | nmod:poss |
| 6 | discovery | discovery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 reported | obj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 friends | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 friends | nmod:poss |
| 9 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 reported | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 sorrow | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 sorrow | cc |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 sorrow | nmod:poss |
| 13 | sorrow | sorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 reported | parataxis |
| 14 | upon | upon | SCONJ | _ | 15 receiving | mark |
| 15 | receiving | receive | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 sorrow | acl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 news | det |
| 17 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 receiving | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 great | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 goat | det |
| 20 | goat | goat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 capture | nmod:poss |
| 21 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 20 goat | case |
| 22 | capture | capture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 great | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 great | cop |
| 24 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 news | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 reported | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | report | past | goat | goat's discovery | goat's friends | FRIENDS's sorrow parataxis; once property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent discovery=Topic to friend=Recipient | ||
| 2 | receive | gerund | FRIENDS's sorrow not said here | the news | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent news=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | past | the goat's capture | great property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | discover | goat | nom discovery «act transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 5 | sorrow | FRIENDS = friend | nom sorrow «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 6 | capture | the goat | nom capture «act transitive»: poss=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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