The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 23, sentence 115
They all set out in pursuit of the pigs and the others quickly caught theirs, but though the brother-in-law chased his until he was very tired and hot he could not catch it.
Who acts: brother, others, other · What happens: set out, catch, chase, be, not catch, pursue · To what, where: pursuit, brother, other, law, pigs
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brother, others, other), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 set | nsubj |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 set | advmod |
| 3 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 set | compound:prt |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 pursuit | case |
| 6 | pursuit | pursuit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 set | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 pigs | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 pigs | det |
| 9 | pigs | pig | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 pursuit | nmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 caught | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 others | det |
| 12 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 caught | nsubj |
| 13 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 14 caught | advmod |
| 14 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 set | conj |
| 15 | theirs | their | PRON | Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 caught | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 chased | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 chased | cc |
| 18 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 25 chased | mark |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 brother | det |
| 20 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 chased | nsubj |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 law | punct |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 law | case |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 in | punct |
| 24 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 brother | conj |
| 25 | chased | chase | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 set | conj |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 chased | obj |
| 27 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 31 tired | mark |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 tired | nsubj |
| 29 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 tired | cop |
| 30 | very | very | ADV | _ | 31 tired | advmod |
| 31 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 chased | advcl |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 hot | cc |
| 33 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 tired | conj |
| 34 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 catch | nsubj |
| 35 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 37 catch | aux |
| 36 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 37 catch | advmod |
| 37 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 tired | conj |
| 38 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 catch | obj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set out | past | brother | pursuit of the pigs | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | catch | past | the others | brother | quickly property | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent their=Theme | |||
| 3 | chase | past | the brother and law | other | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent his=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is | past | other | tired property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | be | other not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 6 | not catch | could | other | law | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 7 | pursue | the pigs | nom pursuit «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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