The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 23, sentence 117
“You chase that pig until he is thin and still you cannot catch it, though all the others have theirs.”
Who acts: You, LUMAWIG, others · What happens: chase, be, not catch, have · To what, where: pig, largest, 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 (You, LUMAWIG, others), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 chase | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 chase | nsubj |
| 3 | chase | chase | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 pig | det |
| 5 | pig | pig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 chase | obj |
| 6 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 9 thin | mark |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 thin | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 thin | cop |
| 9 | thin | thin | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 chase | advcl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 catch | cc |
| 11 | still | still | ADV | _ | 15 catch | advmod |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 catch | nsubj |
| 13 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 catch | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 catch | advmod |
| 15 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 thin | conj |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 catch | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 have | punct |
| 18 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 22 have | mark |
| 19 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 others | det:predet |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 others | det |
| 21 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 have | nsubj |
| 22 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 chase | conj |
| 23 | theirs | their | PRON | Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 have | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 chase | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 chase | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chase in a quote | present | You | that pig | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pig=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | LUMAWIG | thin property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not catch in a quote | can | you | largest = large | still | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 4 | have in a quote | present | all others | pigs = pig | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent their=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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