The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 21, sentence 16
And immediately there was a whirring noise in the air, and a great flight of crickets alighted beside him, and amongst them the cricket whose life he had saved.
Who acts: whirring noise · What happens: be, alight, save · To what, where: crickets, cricket
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 (whirring noise), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 was | cc |
| 2 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 4 was | advmod |
| 3 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 4 was | expl |
| 4 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 noise | det |
| 6 | whirring | whirring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 noise | compound |
| 7 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 was | nsubj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 air | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 air | det |
| 10 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 noise | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 flight | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 flight | cc |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 flight | det |
| 14 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 flight | amod |
| 15 | flight | flight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 noise | appos |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 crickets | case |
| 17 | crickets | cricket | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 flight | nmod |
| 18 | alighted | alight | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 crickets | acl |
| 19 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 20 him | case |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 alighted | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 saved | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 saved | cc |
| 23 | amongst | amongst | ADP | _ | 24 them | case |
| 24 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 saved | obl |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 cricket | det |
| 26 | cricket | cricket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 saved | nsubj:pass |
| 27 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 28 life | nmod:poss |
| 28 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 saved | nsubj:pass |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 saved | nsubj |
| 30 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 saved | aux |
| 31 | saved | save | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 was | conj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | a whirring noise in the air | there | immediately property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | alight | participle | crickets not said here | beside noise | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | save | past · perfect · passive | the cricket | amongst pocket; life nsubj:pass; noise nsubj | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
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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