The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 23, sentence 142
Then, if the foot struck first, the dog should bark; and if the head end was the first to strike, the cock should crow.
Who acts: foot, dog, head end, cock · What happens: strike, bark, be, crow
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 (foot, dog, head end, cock), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 struck | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Then | punct |
| 3 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 struck | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 foot | det |
| 5 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 struck | nsubj |
| 6 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 6 struck | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 bark | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 dog | det |
| 10 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 bark | nsubj |
| 11 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 bark | aux |
| 12 | bark | bark | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 struck | conj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 first | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 first | cc |
| 15 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 21 first | mark |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 end | det |
| 17 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 end | compound |
| 18 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 first | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 first | cop |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 first | det |
| 21 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 6 struck | conj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 strike | mark |
| 23 | strike | strike | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 first | acl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 crow | punct |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 cock | det |
| 26 | cock | cock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 crow | nsubj |
| 27 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 crow | aux |
| 28 | crow | crow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 struck | parataxis |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 struck | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | strike | past | the foot | then | first property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | bark | should | the dog | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a condition, not said to happen | past | the head end | first property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | strike | to-infinitive | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | crow | should | the cock | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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