The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 25, sentence 41
Then, in a dream which came to him, he saw a tall and beautiful maiden, who showed him her right foot, around which was bound a red cord.
Who acts: dream, sun · What happens: come, see, show, bind · To what, where: sun, dream, right foot, red cord
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 (dream, sun), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 saw | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Then | punct |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 dream | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 dream | det |
| 5 | dream | dream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 saw | obl |
| 6 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 came | nsubj |
| 7 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 dream | acl:relcl |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 him | case |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 came | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 dream | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 saw | nsubj |
| 12 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 maiden | det |
| 14 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 maiden | amod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 beautiful | cc |
| 16 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 tall | conj |
| 17 | maiden | maiden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 saw | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 showed | punct |
| 19 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 showed | nsubj |
| 20 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 maiden | parataxis |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 showed | iobj |
| 22 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 foot | nmod:poss |
| 23 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 foot | amod |
| 24 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 showed | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 bound | punct |
| 26 | around | around | ADP | _ | 27 which | case |
| 27 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 bound | obl |
| 28 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 bound | aux:pass |
| 29 | bound | bind | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 showed | conj |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 cord | det |
| 31 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 cord | amod |
| 32 | cord | cord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 bound | obj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | a dream | sun | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | see | past | sun | a dream | then | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 3 | show | past | wife's right foot | sun | who nsubj | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient foot=Topic | |||
| 4 | bind | past · passive | a red cord | which obl | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: cord=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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