The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 22, sentence 84
But, before striking the first blow, he peeped into the cave to see if it were empty.
Who acts: Wang, blow · What happens: strike, peep, see, be · To what, where: first blow
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 (Wang, blow), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 peeped | cc |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 But | punct |
| 3 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 4 striking | mark |
| 4 | striking | strike | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 peeped | advcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 blow | det |
| 6 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 7 blow | amod |
| 7 | blow | blow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 striking | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 striking | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 peeped | nsubj |
| 10 | peeped | peep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 cave | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 cave | det |
| 13 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 peeped | obl |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 see | mark |
| 15 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 peeped | advcl |
| 16 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 19 empty | mark |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 empty | nsubj |
| 18 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 empty | cop |
| 19 | empty | empty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 see | ccomp |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 peeped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | strike | gerund | Wang not said here | the first blow | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blow=Patient | ||||
| 2 | peep | past | Wang | into the cave | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into cave=Theme | ||||
| 3 | see | to-infinitive | Wang not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | is a condition, not said to happen | past | blow | empty 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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