The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 22, sentence 21
The goat had led the hunter a merry chase, which the latter was finally forced to give up, and then return to recover his sack.
Who acts: latter · What happens: lead, force, give up, return, recover · To what, where: goat, latter, 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 (latter), 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 | 4 led | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 led | aux |
| 4 | led | lead | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 hunter | det |
| 6 | hunter | hunter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 led | obj |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 chase | det |
| 8 | merry | merry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 chase | amod |
| 9 | chase | chase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 led | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 forced | punct |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 forced | obj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 latter | det |
| 13 | latter | latter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 forced | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 forced | aux:pass |
| 15 | finally | finally | ADV | _ | 16 forced | advmod |
| 16 | forced | force | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 chase | acl:relcl |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 give | mark |
| 18 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 forced | xcomp |
| 19 | up | up | ADP | _ | 18 give | compound:prt |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 return | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 return | cc |
| 22 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 23 return | advmod |
| 23 | return | return | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 led | parataxis |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 recover | mark |
| 25 | recover | recover | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 return | xcomp |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 sack | nmod:poss |
| 27 | sack | sack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 recover | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 led | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lead | past · perfect · passive | the goat | the hunter obj; a merry chase obj | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | force | past · passive | the latter | a merry chase obj; finally property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | give up | to-infinitive | the latter not said here | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | return | infinitive | then | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | recover | to-infinitive | goat's sack | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sack=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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