The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 24, sentence 47
Thereupon Balatama encountered a great snake in the road, and it inquired his errand.
Who acts: Balatama, snake · What happens: encounter, inquire · To what, where: great snake, road, errand
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 (Balatama, snake), 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 | Thereupon | thereupon | ADV | _ | 3 encountered | advmod |
| 2 | Balatama | Balatama | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 encountered | nsubj |
| 3 | encountered | encounter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 snake | det |
| 5 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 snake | amod |
| 6 | snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 encountered | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 road | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 road | det |
| 9 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 encountered | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 inquired | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 inquired | cc |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 inquired | nsubj |
| 13 | inquired | inquire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 encountered | conj |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 errand | nmod:poss |
| 15 | errand | errand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 inquired | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 encountered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | encounter | past | Balatama | a great snake | the road | thereupon property | vn encounter-30.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer snake=Stimulus | ||
| 2 | inquire speech: other | past | snake | Balatama's errand | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent errand=Recipient |
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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