The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 26, sentence 35
This time they did not laugh, but each of them roared with rage.
Who acts: pestle, each · What happens: not laugh, roar
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 (pestle, each), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 time | det |
| 2 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 laugh | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 laugh | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 laugh | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 laugh | advmod |
| 6 | laugh | laugh | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 roared | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 roared | cc |
| 9 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 roared | nsubj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 them | case |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 each | nmod |
| 12 | roared | roar | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 laugh | parataxis |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 rage | case |
| 14 | rage | rage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 roared | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 laugh | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not laugh | past · do-support | pestle | time | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | roar | past | each of pestle | with rage | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with rage=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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