The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 21, sentence 75
Next he played for his horse, and once more Rajah Sarkap called for his rat; but Dhol Rajah, seeing the kitten keeping watch, was afraid.
Who acts: Dhol, more Rajah, kitten · What happens: play, call, see, keep, be · To what, where: kitten, watch · 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 (Dhol, more Rajah, kitten), 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 | Next | next | ADV | _ | 3 played | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 played | nsubj |
| 3 | played | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 horse | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 horse | nmod:poss |
| 6 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 played | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 called | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 called | cc |
| 9 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 10 more | advmod |
| 10 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 11 Rajah | amod |
| 11 | Rajah | Rajah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 called | nsubj |
| 12 | Sarkap | Sarkap | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Rajah | flat |
| 13 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 played | conj |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 rat | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 rat | nmod:poss |
| 16 | rat | rat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 called | obl |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 afraid | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 29 afraid | cc |
| 19 | Dhol | Dhol | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 afraid | nsubj |
| 20 | Rajah | Rajah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Dhol | flat |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 seeing | punct |
| 22 | seeing | see | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 Dhol | acl |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 kitten | det |
| 24 | kitten | kitten | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 seeing | obj |
| 25 | keeping | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 24 kitten | acl |
| 26 | watch | watch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 keeping | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 Dhol | punct |
| 28 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 afraid | cop |
| 29 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 played | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 played | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | play | past | Dhol | for Dhol's horse; next property | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: agent=Agent for horse=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | call | past | more Rajah | for Dhol's rat | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for rat=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | see | gerund | Dhol not said here | the kitten | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer kitten=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | keep | gerund | the kitten not said here | watch | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent watch=Theme | ||||
| 5 | is | past | Dhol | afraid property | tree rules |
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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