The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 4, sentence 5
They questioned the servants, and when they heard of the Fakir and the little black dog they guessed what had happened and sent in every direction, but neither the Fakir nor the dog was to be found.
Who acts: servants, little black dog · What happens: question, hear, guess, happen, send, find · To what, where: servants, direction, Fakir · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (servants, little black dog), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 questioned | nsubj |
| 2 | questioned | question | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 servants | det |
| 4 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 questioned | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 heard | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 heard | cc |
| 7 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 heard | advmod |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 heard | nsubj |
| 9 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 questioned | parataxis |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Fakir | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Fakir | det |
| 12 | Fakir | Fakir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 heard | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 guessed | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 dog | det |
| 15 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 dog | amod |
| 16 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 dog | amod |
| 17 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 guessed | nsubj |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 guessed | nsubj |
| 19 | guessed | guess | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 heard | conj |
| 20 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 22 happened | nsubj |
| 21 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 happened | aux |
| 22 | happened | happen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 19 guessed | ccomp |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 sent | cc |
| 24 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 happened | conj |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 direction | case |
| 26 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 27 direction | det |
| 27 | direction | direction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 sent | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 found | punct |
| 29 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 39 found | cc |
| 30 | neither | neither | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 32 Fakir | cc:preconj |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 Fakir | det |
| 32 | Fakir | Fakir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 found | nsubj:pass |
| 33 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 35 dog | cc |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 dog | det |
| 35 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 Fakir | conj |
| 36 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 found | aux:pass |
| 37 | to | to | PART | _ | 39 found | mark |
| 38 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 39 found | aux:pass |
| 39 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 questioned | conj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 questioned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | question speech: other | past | servants = servant | the servants | vn interrogate-37.1.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent servant=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | hear | past | servants = servant | of the Fakir | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of fakir=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | guess | past | the little black dog | servants = servant nsubj | vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | happen | past · perfect | what nsubj | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | send | participle | every direction | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in direction=Destination | |||||
| 6 | find | past · passive | the Fakir nor the dog | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
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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