The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 21, sentence 66
These words roused some recollection in Rasalu’s mind, and when, just at this moment, the kitten in his pocket began to struggle, he remembered all about the warning, and the dice made from dead men’s bones.
Who acts: words, moment, Rasalu · What happens: rouse, begin, struggle, remember, make, mind · To what, where: recollection, mind, dice, bones
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 (words, moment, Rasalu), 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 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 2 words | det |
| 2 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 remembered | nsubj |
| 3 | roused | rouse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 words | acl |
| 4 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 recollection | det |
| 5 | recollection | recollection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 roused | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 mind | case |
| 7 | Rasalu | Rasalu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 mind | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 7 Rasalu | case |
| 9 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 roused | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 remembered | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 remembered | cc |
| 12 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 24 began | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 moment | punct |
| 14 | just | just | ADV | _ | 17 moment | advmod |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 moment | case |
| 16 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 moment | det |
| 17 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 began | nsubj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 kitten | punct |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 kitten | det |
| 20 | kitten | kitten | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 moment | appos |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 pocket | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 pocket | nmod:poss |
| 23 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 kitten | nmod | ||
| 24 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 remembered | advcl |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 struggle | mark |
| 26 | struggle | struggle | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 began | xcomp |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 began | punct |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 remembered | nsubj |
| 29 | remembered | remember | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 30 | all | all | ADV | _ | 33 warning | advmod |
| 31 | about | about | ADP | _ | 33 warning | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 warning | det |
| 33 | warning | warning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 remembered | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 made | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 made | cc |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 dice | det |
| 37 | dice | dice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 made | nsubj:pass |
| 38 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 remembered | parataxis |
| 39 | from | from | ADP | _ | 43 bones | case |
| 40 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 men | amod |
| 41 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 43 bones | nmod:poss |
| 42 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 41 men | case |
| 43 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 made | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 29 remembered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rouse | participle | this words not said here | some recollection | Rasalu's mind | vn stimulate-59.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent recollection=Patient | |||
| 2 | begin | past | this moment | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | struggle | to-infinitive | this moment not said here | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | remember | past | this words | about the warning; Place nsubj | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | make | participle · passive | the dice | dead men's bones | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: subject=Product from bone=Material | ||||
| 6 | mind | Rasalu | nom mind «cognition 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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