The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 22, sentence 18
So the goat ran with speed until he was in front of the hunter, and then he appeared to be lame and weary.
Who acts: goat · What happens: run, be, appear
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), 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 ran | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 goat | det |
| 3 | goat | goat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ran | nsubj |
| 4 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 speed | case |
| 6 | speed | speed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ran | obl |
| 7 | until | until | ADP | _ | 11 front | case |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 front | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 front | cop |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 front | case |
| 11 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ran | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 hunter | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 hunter | det |
| 14 | hunter | hunter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 front | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 appeared | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 appeared | cc |
| 17 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 appeared | advmod |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 appeared | nsubj |
| 19 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 ran | conj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 lame | mark |
| 21 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 lame | cop |
| 22 | lame | lame | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 appeared | xcomp |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 weary | cc |
| 24 | weary | weary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 lame | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past | the goat | with speed | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent with speed=Material | ||||
| 2 | is | past | goat | until front | of the hunter | tree rules | |||
| 3 | appear | past | goat | then | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is | to-infinitive | goat not said here | lame property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | be | goat not said here | 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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