The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 23, sentence 126
So the brother-in-law started out again, and he chased it up stream and down, but he could not catch it.
Who acts: brother, LUMAWIG · What happens: start out, chase up, not catch · To what, where: 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 (brother, LUMAWIG), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 8 started | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 brother | det |
| 3 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 started | nsubj |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 law | punct |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 law | case |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 in | punct |
| 7 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 brother | conj |
| 8 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 started | compound:prt |
| 10 | again | again | ADV | _ | 8 started | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 chased | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 chased | cc |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 chased | nsubj |
| 14 | chased | chase | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 started | conj |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 chased | obj |
| 16 | up | up | ADP | _ | 14 chased | compound:prt |
| 17 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 chased | obj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 down | cc |
| 19 | down | down | ADV | _ | 17 stream | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 catch | punct |
| 21 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 catch | cc |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 catch | nsubj |
| 23 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 catch | aux |
| 24 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 catch | advmod |
| 25 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 started | conj |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 catch | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 started | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start out | past | the brother and law | again | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | chase up | past | LUMAWIG | course | stream obj | tree rules | |||
| 3 | not catch | could | LUMAWIG | course | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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