The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 22, sentence 107
So Wang Chih waited in the street; and in a little while the procession came to an end, and the last three figures in it were a boy and girl, dressed like his own two children, walking on either side of a young woman carrying a rice-bowl.
Who acts: Wang, procession, last three figures, young woman · What happens: wait, come, be, dress, walk, carry · To what, where: street, end, boy, side, rice bowl
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wang, procession, last three figures, young woman), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 waited | advmod |
| 2 | Wang | Wang | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 waited | nsubj |
| 3 | Chih | Chih | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Wang | flat |
| 4 | waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 street | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 street | det |
| 7 | street | street | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 waited | obl |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 little | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 little | cc |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 little | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 little | det |
| 12 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 waited | conj |
| 13 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 16 came | mark |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 procession | det |
| 15 | procession | procession | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 came | nsubj |
| 16 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 waited | advcl |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 end | case |
| 18 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 end | det |
| 19 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 came | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 boy | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 boy | cc |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 figures | det |
| 23 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 figures | amod |
| 24 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 figures | nummod |
| 25 | figures | figure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 boy | nsubj |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 it | case |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 figures | nmod |
| 28 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 boy | cop |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 boy | det |
| 30 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 waited | conj |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 girl | cc |
| 32 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 boy | conj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 dressed | punct |
| 34 | dressed | dress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 boy | acl |
| 35 | like | like | ADP | _ | 39 children | case |
| 36 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 children | nmod:poss |
| 37 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 children | amod |
| 38 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 39 children | nummod |
| 39 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 dressed | obl |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 walking | punct |
| 41 | walking | walk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 waited | advcl |
| 42 | on | on | ADP | _ | 44 side | case |
| 43 | either | either | DET | PronType=Ind | 44 side | det |
| 44 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 walking | obl |
| 45 | of | of | ADP | _ | 48 woman | case |
| 46 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 48 woman | det |
| 47 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 48 woman | amod |
| 48 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 side | nmod |
| 49 | carrying | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 48 woman | acl |
| 50 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 53 bowl | det |
| 51 | rice | rice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 53 bowl | compound |
| 52 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 51 rice | punct |
| 53 | bowl | bowl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 carrying | obj |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 waited | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | past | Wang | the street | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in street=Location | ||||
| 2 | come | past | the procession | to a end | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to end=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | the last three figures in end | a boy and girl | girl conj | tree rules | |||
| 4 | dress | participle | a boy and girl not said here | like Wang's own two children | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | walk | gerund | Wang not said here | either side of a young woman | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on side=Trajectory | ||||
| 6 | carry | gerund | a young woman not said here | a rice bowl | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bowl=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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