The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 22, sentence 11
They bitterly bemoaned his fate, especially the goat, who blamed himself as being the cause of this trouble.
Who acts: They, goat, hunter · What happens: bemoan, blame, be, fate · To what, where: fate, hunter
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 (They, goat, hunter), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 bemoaned | nsubj |
| 2 | bitterly | bitterly | ADV | _ | 3 bemoaned | advmod |
| 3 | bemoaned | bemoan | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 fate | nmod:poss |
| 5 | fate | fate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bemoaned | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 goat | punct |
| 7 | especially | especially | ADV | _ | 9 goat | advmod |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 goat | det |
| 9 | goat | goat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fate | appos |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 blamed | punct |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 blamed | nsubj |
| 12 | blamed | blame | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 goat | acl:relcl |
| 13 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 12 blamed | obj |
| 14 | as | as | ADP | _ | 17 cause | case |
| 15 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 cause | cop |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 cause | det |
| 17 | cause | cause | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 blamed | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 trouble | case |
| 19 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 trouble | det |
| 20 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 cause | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 bemoaned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bemoan | past | They | hunter's fate | bitterly property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | blame | past | the goat | hunter | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | gerund | as the cause; of this trouble | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | fate | hunter | nom fate «event 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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