The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 25, sentence 53
And Yun-Ying lived close to the city, and had often seen him walking through the streets carrying his books.
Who acts: Yun Ying, Pei, streets · What happens: live, see, walk, carry · To what, where: Pei, streets, books
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 (Yun Ying, Pei, streets), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 lived | cc |
| 2 | Yun | Yun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Ying | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yun | punct |
| 4 | Ying | Ying | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 lived | nsubj |
| 5 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | close | close | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 lived | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 city | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 city | det |
| 9 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lived | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 seen | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 seen | cc |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 seen | aux |
| 13 | often | often | ADV | _ | 14 seen | advmod |
| 14 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 lived | advcl |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 seen | obj |
| 16 | walking | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 seen | xcomp |
| 17 | through | through | ADP | _ | 19 streets | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 streets | det |
| 19 | streets | street | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 walking | obl |
| 20 | carrying | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 streets | acl |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 books | nmod:poss |
| 22 | books | book | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 carrying | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | Yun Ying | to the city; close property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | past · perfect | Yun Ying not said here | Pei | often property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | walk | gerund | Pei not said here | the streets | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through street=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | carry | gerund | the streets not said here | Pei's books | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/25/53/