The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 25, sentence 44
Then Pei-Hang looked at his right foot, and saw that it was tied to the girl’s by the same thin red cord.
Who acts: Pei Hang, same thin red cord · What happens: look, see, tie · To what, where: foot · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Pei Hang, same thin red cord), 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 | 5 looked | advmod |
| 2 | Pei | Pei | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Hang | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 Pei | punct |
| 4 | Hang | Hang | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 looked | nsubj |
| 5 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 foot | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 foot | nmod:poss |
| 8 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 foot | amod |
| 9 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 looked | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 saw | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 saw | cc |
| 12 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 looked | conj |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 tied | mark |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 tied | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 tied | aux:pass |
| 16 | tied | tie | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 saw | ccomp |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 girl | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 girl | det |
| 19 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 tied | obl |
| 20 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 19 girl | case |
| 21 | by | by | ADP | _ | 26 cord | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 cord | det |
| 23 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 cord | amod |
| 24 | thin | thin | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 cord | amod |
| 25 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 cord | amod |
| 26 | cord | cord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 tied | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | Pei Hang | then | at Hang's right foot | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at foot=Theme | |||
| 2 | see | past | Pei Hang not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | tie | past · passive | the same thin red cord | foot | to the girl | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent subject=Patient to girl=Co-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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