The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 22, sentence 93
He sat there some time longer, and noticed that as the old men frowned over the chessboard, their beards grew longer and longer, until they swept the floor of the cave, and even found their way out of the door.
Who acts: Wang, beards · What happens: sit, notice, frown, grow, sweep, find · To what, where: old men, chessboard, floor, way, door · 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 (Wang, beards), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 sat | nsubj |
| 2 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 sat | advmod |
| 4 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 time | det |
| 5 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sat | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 2 sat | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 noticed | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 noticed | cc |
| 9 | noticed | notice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 sat | parataxis |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 grew | mark |
| 11 | as | as | ADP | _ | 14 men | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 men | det |
| 13 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 men | amod |
| 14 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 grew | obl |
| 15 | frowned | frown | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 men | acl |
| 16 | over | over | ADP | _ | 18 chessboard | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 chessboard | det |
| 18 | chessboard | chessboard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 frowned | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 men | punct |
| 20 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 beards | nmod:poss |
| 21 | beards | beard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 grew | nsubj |
| 22 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 noticed | ccomp |
| 23 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 22 grew | advmod |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 longer | cc |
| 25 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 23 longer | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 swept | punct |
| 27 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 29 swept | mark |
| 28 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 swept | nsubj |
| 29 | swept | sweep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 grew | conj |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 floor | det |
| 31 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 swept | obj |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 cave | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 cave | det |
| 34 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 floor | nmod |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 found | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 found | cc |
| 37 | even | even | ADV | _ | 38 found | advmod |
| 38 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 noticed | conj |
| 39 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 way | nmod:poss |
| 40 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 found | obj |
| 41 | out | out | ADP | _ | 44 door | case |
| 42 | of | of | ADP | _ | 44 door | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 door | det |
| 44 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 found | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past | Wang | there | time | long property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||
| 2 | notice | past | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 3 | frown | participle | the old men not said here | the chessboard | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | grow | past | workers's beards | as the old men; long property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | sweep | past | beards = beard | the floor of the cave | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme floor=Trajectory | ||||
| 6 | find | past | workers's way | the door | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic |
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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