The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 22, sentence 16
The hunter would then be sure of being able to catch him, and so lay down his sack, and run after him.
Who acts: hunter · What happens: be, catch, lay down, run · To what, where: hunter, sack
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 (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 hunter | det |
| 2 | hunter | hunter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sure | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 sure | aux |
| 4 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 sure | advmod |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 sure | cop |
| 6 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 able | case |
| 8 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 able | cop |
| 9 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 sure | ccomp |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 catch | mark |
| 11 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 able | xcomp |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 catch | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 lay | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 lay | cc |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 lay | advmod |
| 16 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 sure | parataxis |
| 17 | down | down | ADP | _ | 16 lay | compound:prt |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 sack | nmod:poss |
| 19 | sack | sack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 lay | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 run | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 run | cc |
| 22 | run | run | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 16 lay | conj |
| 23 | after | after | ADP | _ | 24 him | case |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 run | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 sure | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | would | the hunter | then | sure property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is | gerund | the hunter not said here | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | catch | to-infinitive | the hunter not said here | hunter | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 4 | lay down | infinitive | hunter's sack | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sack=Result | |||||
| 5 | run | infinitive | after hunter | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «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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