The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 22, sentence 2
The rest of us could easily look after ourselves, for the crow would fly into the air, the weasel could hide in any hole, and I should seek safety in flight; but you, who move so slowly, would be at the mercy of the hunter.”
Who acts: rest, crow, weasel, I, you · What happens: look, fly, hide, seek, move, be · To what, where: air, hole, safety, flight, mercy
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 (rest, crow, weasel, I), 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 rest | det |
| 2 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 look | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 us | case |
| 4 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 rest | nmod |
| 5 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 look | aux |
| 6 | easily | easily | ADV | _ | 7 look | advmod |
| 7 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | after | after | ADP | _ | 9 ourselves | case |
| 9 | ourselves | ourselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 7 look | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 fly | punct |
| 11 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 15 fly | mark |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 crow | det |
| 13 | crow | crow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 fly | nsubj |
| 14 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 fly | aux |
| 15 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 look | conj |
| 16 | into | into | ADP | _ | 18 air | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 air | det |
| 18 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 fly | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 hide | punct |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 weasel | det |
| 21 | weasel | weasel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 hide | nsubj |
| 22 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 hide | aux |
| 23 | hide | hide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 fly | advcl |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 hole | case |
| 25 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 26 hole | det |
| 26 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 hide | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 seek | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 seek | cc |
| 29 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 31 seek | nsubj |
| 30 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 seek | aux |
| 31 | seek | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 hide | conj |
| 32 | safety | safety | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 seek | obj |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 flight | case |
| 34 | flight | flight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 seek | obl |
| 35 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 40 move | punct |
| 36 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 40 move | cc |
| 37 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 40 move | nsubj |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 move | punct |
| 39 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 40 move | nsubj |
| 40 | move | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 look | parataxis |
| 41 | so | so | ADV | _ | 42 slowly | advmod |
| 42 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 40 move | advmod |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 mercy | punct |
| 44 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 48 mercy | aux |
| 45 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 48 mercy | cop |
| 46 | at | at | ADP | _ | 48 mercy | case |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 mercy | det |
| 48 | mercy | mercy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 move | obl |
| 49 | of | of | ADP | _ | 51 hunter | case |
| 50 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 51 hunter | det |
| 51 | hunter | hunter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 mercy | nmod |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 look | punct |
| 53 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 look | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | could | the rest of us | after ourselves | easily property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | fly | would | the crow | into the air result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into air=Result | ||||
| 3 | hide | could | the weasel | any hole | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in hole=Location | ||||
| 4 | seek | should | I | safety | flight | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent safety=Theme in flight=Location | |||
| 5 | move | present | you | who nsubj; slowly property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | is | would | the mercy | of the hunter | 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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