The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 22, sentence 15
The goat was to let himself be seen by the hunter, and to make out that he was lame.
Who acts: goat, hunter · What happens: be, see, make out
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 (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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 goat | det |
| 2 | goat | goat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 let | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 let | cop |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 let | mark |
| 5 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 5 let | obj |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 seen | aux:pass |
| 8 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 let | xcomp |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 hunter | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 hunter | det |
| 11 | hunter | hunter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 seen | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 make | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 make | cc |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 make | mark |
| 15 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 let | parataxis |
| 16 | out | out | ADP | _ | 15 make | compound:prt |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 lame | mark |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 lame | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 lame | cop |
| 20 | lame | lame | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 make | advcl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the goat | let property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see | infinitive · passive | the hunter | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | make out | to-infinitive | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 4 | is | past | goat | lame 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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