The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 21, sentence 119
The weasel possessed very sharp teeth, and he was to gnaw the meshes of the net in which the goat was confined, and so set him at liberty.
Who acts: weasel, goat · What happens: possess, be, confine, set · To what, where: sharp teeth, goat, net, liberty, weasel
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), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 weasel | det |
| 2 | weasel | weasel | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | possessed | possess | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 weasel | acl |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 sharp | advmod |
| 5 | sharp | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 teeth | amod |
| 6 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 possessed | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 gnaw | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 gnaw | cc |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 gnaw | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 gnaw | cop |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 gnaw | mark |
| 12 | gnaw | gnaw | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 weasel | parataxis |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 meshes | det |
| 14 | meshes | mesh | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 gnaw | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 net | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 net | det |
| 17 | net | net | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 meshes | nmod |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 which | case |
| 19 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 confined | obl |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 goat | det |
| 21 | goat | goat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 confined | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 confined | aux:pass |
| 23 | confined | confine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 net | acl:relcl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 set | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 set | cc |
| 26 | so | so | ADV | _ | 27 set | advmod |
| 27 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 gnaw | conj |
| 28 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 set | obj |
| 29 | at | at | ADP | _ | 30 liberty | case |
| 30 | liberty | liberty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 set | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 weasel | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | possess | participle | the weasel not said here | sharp teeth | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot tooth=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | goat | the meshes of the net obj; gnaw property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | confine | past · passive | the goat | the net | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in which=Destination | ||||
| 4 | set | infinitive | goat not said here | goat | liberty | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme at liberty=Destination |
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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