The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 27, sentence 47
At times she endeavors to get out, but as soon as she catches sight of King Rasalu’s likeness on the rock she rushes back, filled with dismay, and her roaring fills the villages around with dread.
Who acts: feat, roaring · What happens: endeavor, get out, catch, rush back, fill, fill around · To what, where: sight, rock, villages, likeness
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 (feat, roaring), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 times | case |
| 2 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 endeavors | obl |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 endeavors | nsubj |
| 4 | endeavors | endeavor | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 get | mark |
| 6 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 endeavors | xcomp |
| 7 | out | out | ADV | _ | 6 get | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 catches | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 catches | cc |
| 10 | as | as | ADV | _ | 11 soon | advmod |
| 11 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 catches | advmod |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 catches | mark |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 catches | nsubj |
| 14 | catches | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 endeavors | conj |
| 15 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 catches | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 likeness | case |
| 17 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 likeness | nmod:poss |
| 18 | Rasalu | Rasalu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 King | flat |
| 19 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 17 King | case |
| 20 | likeness | likeness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sight | nmod |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 rock | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 rock | det |
| 23 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 catches | obl |
| 24 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 rushes | nsubj |
| 25 | rushes | rush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 rock | acl:relcl |
| 26 | back | back | ADV | _ | 25 rushes | advmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 filled | punct |
| 28 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 catches | conj |
| 29 | with | with | ADP | _ | 30 dismay | case |
| 30 | dismay | dismay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 filled | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 fills | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 fills | cc |
| 33 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 roaring | nmod:poss |
| 34 | roaring | roaring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 fills | nsubj |
| 35 | fills | fill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 endeavors | conj |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 villages | det |
| 37 | villages | village | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 fills | obj |
| 38 | around | around | ADV | _ | 35 fills | advmod |
| 39 | with | with | ADP | _ | 40 dread | case |
| 40 | dread | dread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 fills | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 endeavors | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | endeavor | present | feat | time | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | get out | to-infinitive | feat not said here | out property | vn withdraw-82-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | catch | present | feat | sight of King's likeness | the rock | soon property | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Theme | ||
| 4 | rush back | present | feat | the rock not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme rock=Trajectory | ||||
| 5 | fill | participle | feat not said here | with dismay | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with dismay=Instrument | ||||
| 6 | fill around | present | feat's roaring | the villages | with dread; around property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent village=Patient with dread=Instrument | |||
| 7 | sight | King's likeness | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 8 | roar | feat | nom roaring «event 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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