The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 22, sentence 19
As soon as the hunter saw him in such feeble condition he was sure he could catch him without difficulty, and so, throwing down his sack, he ran after the goat, who artfully drew him farther and farther away, until they were both out of sight.
Who acts: hunter, goat, teeth · What happens: see, be, catch, throw down, run, draw · To what, where: goat, such feeble condition, sack, hunter, sight
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, goat, teeth), 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 | As | as | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 saw | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 saw | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 hunter | det |
| 5 | hunter | hunter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 saw | nsubj |
| 6 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 saw | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 condition | case |
| 9 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 condition | amod |
| 10 | feeble | feeble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 condition | amod |
| 11 | condition | condition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 saw | obl |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 sure | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 sure | cop |
| 14 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 condition | amod |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 catch | nsubj |
| 16 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 catch | aux |
| 17 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 sure | ccomp |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 catch | obj |
| 19 | without | without | ADP | _ | 20 difficulty | case |
| 20 | difficulty | difficulty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 catch | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 throwing | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 throwing | cc |
| 23 | so | so | ADV | _ | 25 throwing | advmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 throwing | punct |
| 25 | throwing | throw | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 saw | advcl |
| 26 | down | down | ADP | _ | 25 throwing | compound:prt |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 sack | nmod:poss |
| 28 | sack | sack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 throwing | obj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 ran | punct |
| 30 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 ran | nsubj |
| 31 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 saw | conj |
| 32 | after | after | ADP | _ | 34 goat | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 goat | det |
| 34 | goat | goat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 ran | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 drew | punct |
| 36 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 38 drew | nsubj |
| 37 | artfully | artfully | ADV | _ | 38 drew | advmod |
| 38 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 goat | acl:relcl |
| 39 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 drew | obj |
| 40 | farther | far | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 38 drew | advmod |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 farther | cc |
| 42 | farther | far | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 40 farther | conj |
| 43 | away | away | ADV | _ | 42 farther | advmod |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 51 sight | punct |
| 45 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 51 sight | mark |
| 46 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 51 sight | nsubj |
| 47 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 51 sight | cop |
| 48 | both | both | ADV | _ | 51 sight | advmod |
| 49 | out | out | ADP | _ | 51 sight | case |
| 50 | of | of | ADP | _ | 51 sight | case |
| 51 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 ran | obl |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the hunter | goat | such feeble condition | soon property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | ||
| 2 | is | past | hunter | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | catch | could | hunter | goat | without difficulty | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 4 | throw down | gerund | the hunter not said here | hunter's sack | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sack=Theme | ||||
| 5 | run | past | hunter | after the goat | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | draw | past | the goat | hunter | artfully, far property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 7 | is | past | teeth = tooth | sight | both 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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