The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 22, sentence 64
Immediately the stick leaped out and beat them all until they begged for mercy and promised that Juan should ever after be head of the house.
Who acts: stick, things, Juan · What happens: leap out, beat, beg, promise, be · To what, where: things · 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 (stick, things, Juan), 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 | Immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 4 leaped | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 stick | det |
| 3 | stick | stick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 leaped | nsubj |
| 4 | leaped | leap | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 leaped | compound:prt |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 beat | cc |
| 7 | beat | beat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 leaped | conj |
| 8 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 beat | obj |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 them | nmod:unmarked |
| 10 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 12 begged | mark |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 begged | nsubj |
| 12 | begged | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 beat | advcl |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 mercy | case |
| 14 | mercy | mercy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 begged | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 promised | cc |
| 16 | promised | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 begged | conj |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 head | mark |
| 18 | Juan | Juan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 head | nsubj |
| 19 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 head | aux |
| 20 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 23 head | advmod |
| 21 | after | after | ADP | _ | 23 head | case |
| 22 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 head | cop |
| 23 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 promised | ccomp |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 house | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 house | det |
| 26 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 head | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 leaped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leap out | participle | the stick | immediately property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | beat | infinitive | the stick not said here | things = thing | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location they=Theme | ||||
| 3 | beg speech: request | past | things = thing | for mercy | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent for mercy=Topic | ||||
| 4 | promise speech: promise | past | things = thing not said here | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is | should | Juan | after head; ever | of the house | 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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