The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 24, sentence 5
A lion was wandering over the desert, seeking water.
Who acts: lion · What happens: wonder, seek · To what, where: seeking water, desert
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 (lion), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 lion | det |
| 2 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wandering | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 wandering | aux |
| 4 | wandering | wonder | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | over | over | ADP | _ | 7 desert | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 desert | det |
| 7 | desert | desert | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wandering | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 seeking | punct |
| 9 | seeking | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 water | amod |
| 10 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wandering | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 wandering | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wonder speech: ask | past · progressive | a lion | seeking water | the desert | tree rules | |||
| 2 | seek | gerund | vn hunt-35.1 «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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