The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 3, sentence 17
It was now the turn of the third man, who was the real criminal.
Who acts: love, third man · What happens: be · To what, where: turn, real criminal
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 (love, third man), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 turn | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 turn | cop |
| 3 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 turn | advmod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 turn | det |
| 5 | turn | turn | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 man | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 man | det |
| 8 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 9 man | amod |
| 9 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 turn | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 criminal | punct |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 criminal | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 criminal | cop |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 criminal | det |
| 14 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 criminal | amod |
| 15 | criminal | criminal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 man | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 turn | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | love | the turn | now | of the third man and the real criminal | tree rules | ||
| 2 | is a | past | the third man and the real criminal | the real criminal | tree rules |
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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