The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 23, sentence 42
The Hare was busy pounding the drugs which make up the elixir of life; but he left his work, opened the door, and invited Wang Chih to come in.
Who acts: Hare, drugs, Wang · What happens: be, pound, make up, leave, open, invite · To what, where: drugs, elixir, work, door, Wang
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 (Hare, drugs, Wang), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Hare | det |
| 2 | Hare | Hare | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 busy | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 busy | cop |
| 4 | busy | busy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | pounding | pound | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 busy | advcl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 drugs | det |
| 7 | drugs | drug | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 pounding | obj |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 make | nsubj |
| 9 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 drugs | acl:relcl |
| 10 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 make | compound:prt |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 elixir | det |
| 12 | elixir | elixir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 make | xcomp |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 life | case |
| 14 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 elixir | nmod |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 left | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 left | cc |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 left | nsubj |
| 18 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 busy | parataxis |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 work | nmod:poss |
| 20 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 left | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 opened | punct |
| 22 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 left | conj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 door | det |
| 24 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 opened | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 invited | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 invited | cc |
| 27 | invited | invite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 left | conj |
| 28 | Wang | Wang | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 invited | obj |
| 29 | Chih | Chih | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Wang | flat |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 come | mark |
| 31 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 invited | xcomp |
| 32 | in | in | ADV | _ | 31 come | advmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 busy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the Hare | busy property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | pound | gerund | the Hare not said here | the drugs | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drug=Product | ||||
| 3 | make up | present | the drugs | the elixir of life | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | leave | past | Hare | Hare's work | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Theme | ||||
| 5 | open | past | Hare not said here | the door | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme | ||||
| 6 | invite | past | Hare not said here | Wang | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent wang=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 7 | come in not said to happen | to-infinitive | Wang not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 8 | work | Hare | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=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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