The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 25, sentence 115
But he took out his fourth seed, and watched it disappear beneath a coal-black wave.
Who acts: heart, waste · What happens: take out, watch, disappear · To what, where: fourth seed, waste
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (heart, waste), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 took | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 took | compound:prt |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 seed | nmod:poss |
| 6 | fourth | fourth | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 7 seed | amod |
| 7 | seed | seed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 watched | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 watched | cc |
| 10 | watched | watch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 watched | obj |
| 12 | disappear | disappear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 watched | xcomp |
| 13 | beneath | beneath | ADP | _ | 18 wave | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 wave | det |
| 15 | coal | coal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 black | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 coal | punct |
| 17 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 wave | amod |
| 18 | wave | wave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 disappear | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take out | past | heart | heart's fourth seed | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seed=Theme | ||||
| 2 | watch | past | heart not said here | waste | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | disappear | infinitive | waste not said here | beneath a black wave | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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