The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 24, sentence 31
They stung him all over his body, and soon he knew that he was conquered.
Who acts: mosquitoes, language · What happens: sting, know, conquer · To what, where: language
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mosquitoes, language), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 stung | nsubj |
| 2 | stung | sting | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 stung | obj |
| 4 | all | all | ADV | _ | 7 body | advmod |
| 5 | over | over | ADP | _ | 7 body | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 body | nmod:poss |
| 7 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 stung | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 knew | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 knew | cc |
| 10 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 knew | advmod |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 knew | nsubj |
| 12 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 stung | conj |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 conquered | mark |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 conquered | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 conquered | aux:pass |
| 16 | conquered | conquer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 knew | advcl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 stung | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sting | past | mosquitoes = mosquito | language | language's body advcl | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | know | past | language | soon property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | conquer | past · passive | language | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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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