The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 26, sentence 20
Pei-Hang folded his arms and sat still, and thought, and thought, and took no notice of their gibes and jeers.
Who acts: Pei, arms · What happens: fold, sit, think, take, notice, gibe · To what, where: arms, notice, gibes · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Pei, arms), 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 | Pei | Pei | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 folded | nsubj |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Pei | punct |
| 3 | Hang | Hang | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Pei | flat |
| 4 | folded | fold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 arms | nmod:poss |
| 6 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 folded | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 sat | cc |
| 8 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 folded | conj |
| 9 | still | still | ADV | _ | 8 sat | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 thought | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 thought | cc |
| 12 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 folded | parataxis |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 thought | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 thought | cc |
| 15 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 thought | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 took | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 took | cc |
| 18 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 thought | ccomp |
| 19 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 20 notice | det |
| 20 | notice | notice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 took | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 gibes | case |
| 22 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 gibes | nmod:poss |
| 23 | gibes | gibe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 notice | nmod |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 jeers | cc |
| 25 | jeers | jeer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 gibes | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 folded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fold | past | Pei | Pei's arms | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent arm=Patient | ||||
| 2 | sit | past | Pei not said here | still | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | think speech: other | past | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | think speech: other | past | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | take | past | no notice of arms's gibes and jeers | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent notice=Theme | |||||
| 6 | notice | arms's gibes and jeers | nom notice «communication transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 7 | gibe | arms = arm | nom gibe «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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