The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 23, sentence 44
The Hare of the Moon lives a thousand years, as you know, and when he is five hundred years old he changes his color from brown to white, and becomes, if possible, better tempered and nicer than he was before.
Who acts: Hare, you · What happens: live, know, be, change, become, temper · To what, where: color, brown
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, you), 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 | 6 lives | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Moon | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Moon | det |
| 5 | Moon | Moon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Hare | nmod |
| 6 | lives | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 thousand | det |
| 8 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 years | nummod |
| 9 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 lives | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 know | punct |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 13 know | mark |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 know | nsubj |
| 13 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 lives | parataxis |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 changes | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 changes | cc |
| 16 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 22 old | mark |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 old | nsubj |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 old | cop |
| 19 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 hundred | compound |
| 20 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 years | nummod |
| 21 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 old | obl:unmarked |
| 22 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 changes | advcl |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 changes | nsubj |
| 24 | changes | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 know | conj |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 color | nmod:poss |
| 26 | color | color | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 changes | obj |
| 27 | from | from | ADP | _ | 28 brown | case |
| 28 | brown | brown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 changes | obl |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 white | case |
| 30 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 brown | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 becomes | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 becomes | cc |
| 33 | becomes | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 lives | conj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 possible | punct |
| 35 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 36 possible | mark |
| 36 | possible | possible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 becomes | xcomp |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 tempered | punct |
| 38 | better | well | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 39 tempered | advmod |
| 39 | tempered | temper | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 36 possible | parataxis |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 nicer | cc |
| 41 | nicer | nice | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 39 tempered | conj |
| 42 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 45 before | mark |
| 43 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 before | nsubj |
| 44 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 45 before | cop |
| 45 | before | before | ADV | _ | 41 nicer | advcl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 lives | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | present | the Hare of the Moon | year | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | know | present | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is | present | Hare | year | old property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | change | present | Hare | Hare's color | brown | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.material PP.result»: agent=Agent color=Patient from brown=Initial_State | |||
| 5 | become | present | the Hare of the Moon not said here | possible property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 6 | temper | participle | well property | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | is | past | Hare | before property | tree rules |
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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