The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 22, sentence 6
The hunter was greatly vexed when he saw the broken net, and he wondered who could have helped the goat to get away.
Who acts: hunter · What happens: vex, see, break, wonder, help, get away · To what, where: hunter, broken net, goat · Speech: someone speaks here
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 | 5 vexed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 vexed | aux:pass |
| 4 | greatly | greatly | ADV | _ | 5 vexed | advmod |
| 5 | vexed | vex | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 saw | advmod |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 saw | nsubj |
| 8 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 vexed | ccomp |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 net | det |
| 10 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 net | amod |
| 11 | net | net | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 saw | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 wondered | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 wondered | cc |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 wondered | nsubj |
| 15 | wondered | wonder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 vexed | conj |
| 16 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 helped | nsubj |
| 17 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 helped | aux |
| 18 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 helped | aux |
| 19 | helped | help | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 wondered | ccomp |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 goat | det |
| 21 | goat | goat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 helped | obj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 get | mark |
| 23 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 helped | advcl |
| 24 | away | away | ADV | _ | 23 get | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 vexed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | vex | past · passive | the hunter | greatly property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see | past | hunter | the broken net | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer net=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | break | participle | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 4 | wonder speech: ask | past | hunter | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | help | could · perfect | the goat | who nsubj | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goat=Beneficiary | ||||
| 6 | get away | to-infinitive | away property | vn withdraw-82-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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