The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 3, sentence 85
Then he shot a deer, and returning home, put some of its blood on the forehead and hands of the Ranee, who thought that he had really killed his daughters, and said she felt quite well.
Who acts: Rajah, Ranee · What happens: shoot, return, put, think, kill, say · To what, where: deer, some, forehead, Rajah · 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 (Rajah, Ranee), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 shot | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 shot | nsubj |
| 3 | shot | shoot | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 deer | det |
| 5 | deer | deer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shot | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 put | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 put | cc |
| 8 | returning | return | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 put | advcl |
| 9 | home | home | ADV | _ | 8 returning | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 returning | punct |
| 11 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 shot | conj |
| 12 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 put | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 blood | case |
| 14 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 blood | nmod:poss |
| 15 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 some | nmod |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 forehead | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 forehead | det |
| 18 | forehead | forehead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 put | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 hands | cc |
| 20 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 forehead | conj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 Ranee | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Ranee | det |
| 23 | Ranee | Ranee | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 hands | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 thought | punct |
| 25 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 thought | nsubj |
| 26 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 Ranee | advcl:relcl |
| 27 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 31 killed | mark |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 29 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 killed | aux |
| 30 | really | really | ADV | _ | 31 killed | advmod |
| 31 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 thought | ccomp |
| 32 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 daughters | nmod:poss |
| 33 | daughters | daughter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 killed | obj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 said | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 said | cc |
| 36 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 shot | conj |
| 37 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 felt | nsubj |
| 38 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 said | ccomp |
| 39 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 40 well | advmod |
| 40 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 38 felt | advmod |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 shot | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shoot | past | Rajah | a deer | then | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deer=Theme | |||
| 2 | return | gerund | home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | put | infinitive | Rajah not said here | some of rice's blood | the forehead and hands of the Ranee | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent some=Theme on forehead=Destination | |||
| 4 | think speech: other | past | the Ranee | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | kill | past · perfect · passive | Rajah | Rajah's daughters obj | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer daughter=Result | ||||
| 6 | say speech: assert | past | Rajah not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 7 | feel | past | Ranee | well property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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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