The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 3, sentence 101
One day, not long after this, as Balna was rocking her baby’s cradle, and whilst her sisters were working in the room below, there came to the palace door a man in a long black cloak, who said he was a Fakir, and had come to beg.
Who acts: Balna, sisters, man, husband · What happens: rock, work, come, say, be, beg · To what, where: cradle, man, palace door, Fakir · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Balna, sisters, man, husband), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 long | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 long | punct |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 long | advmod |
| 5 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 30 came | advmod |
| 6 | after | after | ADP | _ | 7 this | case |
| 7 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 long | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 long | punct |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 rocking | mark |
| 10 | Balna | Balna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 rocking | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 rocking | aux |
| 12 | rocking | rock | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 30 came | advcl |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 baby | nmod:poss |
| 14 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 cradle | nmod:poss |
| 15 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 14 baby | case |
| 16 | cradle | cradle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 rocking | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 working | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 working | cc |
| 19 | whilst | whilst | SCONJ | _ | 23 working | mark |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 sisters | nmod:poss |
| 21 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 working | nsubj |
| 22 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 working | aux |
| 23 | working | work | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 rocking | conj |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 room | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 room | det |
| 26 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 working | obl |
| 27 | below | below | ADV | _ | 23 working | advmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 rocking | punct |
| 29 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 30 came | expl |
| 30 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 34 door | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 door | det |
| 33 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 door | compound |
| 34 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 came | obl |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 man | det |
| 36 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 came | obl |
| 37 | in | in | ADP | _ | 41 cloak | case |
| 38 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 41 cloak | det |
| 39 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 cloak | amod |
| 40 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 cloak | amod |
| 41 | cloak | cloak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 man | nmod |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 said | punct |
| 43 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 44 said | nsubj |
| 44 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 man | acl:relcl |
| 45 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 48 Fakir | nsubj |
| 46 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 48 Fakir | cop |
| 47 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 48 Fakir | det |
| 48 | Fakir | fakir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 said | ccomp |
| 49 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 52 come | punct |
| 50 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 52 come | cc |
| 51 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 52 come | aux |
| 52 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 30 came | conj |
| 53 | to | to | PART | _ | 54 beg | mark |
| 54 | beg | beg | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 52 come | xcomp |
| 55 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 30 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rock | past · progressive | Balna | Balna's baby's cradle | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location cradle=Theme | ||||
| 2 | work | past · progressive | Balna's sisters | in the room; below property | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in room=Theme | ||||
| 3 | come | past | a man in a long black cloak | the palace door; there | long property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to door=Initial_Location | |||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | a man in a long black cloak | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is a | past | husband | a Fakir | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | come | past · perfect | tree rules | ||||||
| 7 | beg speech: request | to-infinitive | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=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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