The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 21, sentence 73
After awhile, Sarkap, seeing Rajah Rasalu was winning, called to his rat, but when Dhol Rajah saw the kitten he was afraid, and would not go farther.
Who acts: Sarkap, Rajah, Dhol · What happens: see, win, call, be, not go · To what, where: rat, kitten · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Sarkap, Rajah, Dhol), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 2 awhile | case |
| 2 | awhile | awhile | ADV | _ | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 awhile | punct |
| 4 | Sarkap | Sarkap | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 awhile | vocative |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 seeing | punct |
| 6 | seeing | see | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 Sarkap | acl |
| 7 | Rajah | Rajah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 winning | nsubj |
| 8 | Rasalu | Rasalu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Rajah | flat |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 winning | aux |
| 10 | winning | win | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 seeing | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 called | punct |
| 12 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 winning | parataxis |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 rat | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 rat | nmod:poss |
| 15 | rat | rat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 called | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 afraid | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 afraid | cc |
| 18 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 21 saw | advmod |
| 19 | Dhol | Dhol | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 saw | nsubj |
| 20 | Rajah | Rajah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Dhol | flat |
| 21 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 afraid | advcl |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 kitten | det |
| 23 | kitten | kitten | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 saw | obj |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 afraid | nsubj |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 afraid | cop |
| 26 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 called | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 go | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 go | cc |
| 29 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 go | aux |
| 30 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 31 go | advmod |
| 31 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 26 afraid | conj |
| 32 | farther | far | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 31 go | advmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 awhile | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | gerund | Sarkap not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | win | past · progressive | Rajah | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | call | participle | Rajah's rat | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to rat=Recipient | |||||
| 4 | see | past | Dhol | the kitten | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer kitten=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | is | past | Dhol | afraid property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | not go | would | Dhol not said here | far property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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