The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 27, sentence 14
The fakir then turned himself into a powerful tiger, and when Rasalu and his followers reached the house they saw this wild beast prowling round.
Who acts: fakir, Rasalu, pupils, wild beast · What happens: turn, reach, see, prowl · To what, where: FAKIR, house, wild beast
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fakir, Rasalu, pupils, wild beast), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 fakir | det |
| 2 | fakir | fakir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 turned | nsubj |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 turned | advmod |
| 4 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 4 turned | obj |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 9 tiger | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 tiger | det |
| 8 | powerful | powerful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 tiger | amod |
| 9 | tiger | tiger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 turned | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 reached | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 reached | cc |
| 12 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 17 reached | mark |
| 13 | Rasalu | Rasalu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 reached | nsubj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 followers | cc |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 followers | nmod:poss |
| 16 | followers | follower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 Rasalu | conj |
| 17 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 turned | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 house | det |
| 19 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 reached | obj |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 saw | nsubj |
| 21 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 house | acl:relcl |
| 22 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 24 beast | det |
| 23 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 beast | amod |
| 24 | beast | beast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 saw | obj |
| 25 | prowling | prowl | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 24 beast | acl |
| 26 | round | round | ADV | _ | 25 prowling | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past | the fakir | FAKIR | then | into a powerful tiger result | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent himself=Theme into tiger=Result | ||
| 2 | reach | past | Rasalu and FAKIR's followers | the house | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent house=Theme | ||||
| 3 | see | past | pupils = pupil | this wild beast | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer beast=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | prowl | gerund | this wild beast not said here | round property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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