The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 23, sentence 122
But no sooner had the brother-in-law put it over his shoulder than it cut loose and ran away.
Who acts: law, course · What happens: have, put over, cut, run away · To what, where: brother, course
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 (law, course), 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 | _ | 4 had | cc |
| 2 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 3 sooner | det |
| 3 | sooner | soon | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 4 had | advmod |
| 4 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 put | advcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 brother | det |
| 6 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 had | obj |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 law | punct |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 law | case |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 in | punct |
| 10 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 put | nsubj |
| 11 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 put | obj |
| 13 | over | over | ADP | _ | 11 put | compound:prt |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 shoulder | nmod:poss |
| 15 | shoulder | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 put | obj |
| 16 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 18 cut | mark |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 cut | nsubj |
| 18 | cut | cut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 put | advcl |
| 19 | loose | loose | ADV | _ | 18 cut | advmod |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 ran | cc |
| 21 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 cut | conj |
| 22 | away | away | ADV | _ | 21 ran | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | law not said here | the brother | soon property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Patient | |||
| 2 | put over | past | law | course | other's shoulder obj | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent it=Asset shoulder=Goal | |||
| 3 | cut | past | course | loose property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP-PRO-ARB»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | run away | past | course not said here | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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