The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 24, sentence 50
The animal made a move to seize him, but with one stroke of his fighting knife the boy cut the snake into two pieces, one of which he threw into the sea and the other into the mountains.
Who acts: animal, boy · What happens: make, seize, cut, throw, stroke · To what, where: move, animal, snake, two pieces, sea, fighting knife
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 (animal, boy), 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 animal | det |
| 2 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 made | nsubj |
| 3 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 move | det |
| 5 | move | move | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 made | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 seize | mark |
| 7 | seize | seize | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 made | advcl |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 seize | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 cut | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 cut | cc |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 stroke | case |
| 12 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 stroke | nummod |
| 13 | stroke | stroke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 cut | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 knife | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 knife | nmod:poss |
| 16 | fighting | fighting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 knife | compound |
| 17 | knife | knife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 stroke | nmod |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 boy | det |
| 19 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 cut | nsubj |
| 20 | cut | cut | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 made | parataxis |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 snake | det |
| 22 | snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 cut | obj |
| 23 | into | into | ADP | _ | 25 pieces | case |
| 24 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 pieces | nummod |
| 25 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 cut | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 one | punct |
| 27 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 pieces | appos |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 which | case |
| 29 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 threw | obl |
| 30 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 threw | nsubj |
| 31 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 one | parataxis |
| 32 | into | into | ADP | _ | 34 sea | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 sea | det |
| 34 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 threw | obl |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 other | cc |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 other | det |
| 37 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 threw | conj |
| 38 | into | into | ADP | _ | 40 mountains | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 mountains | det |
| 40 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 other | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | the animal | a move | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent move=Product | ||||
| 2 | seize | to-infinitive | the animal not said here | animal | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 3 | cut | past | the boy | the snake | into two pieces result; with one stroke of animal's fighting knife | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP PP.result PP.instrument»: agent=Agent snake=Patient with stroke=Instrument into piece=Result | |||
| 4 | throw | past | boy | the sea | which obl | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent of which=Initial_Location into sea=Destination | |||
| 5 | stroke | animal's fighting knife | nom stroke «act transitive»: of=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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