The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 4, sentence 55
Suddenly he was awakened by a rustling sound, and looking about him, saw a large serpent making its way to an eagle’s nest which was in the tree beneath which he was, and in the nest were two young eagles.
Who acts: rustling sound, large serpent, nest, two young eagles · What happens: awaken, rustle, look, see, make, be · To what, where: Magician, large serpent, way, tree, nest
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 (rustling sound, large serpent, nest, two young eagles), 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 | Suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 4 awakened | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 awakened | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 awakened | aux:pass |
| 4 | awakened | awaken | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 sound | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 sound | det |
| 7 | rustling | rustle | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 sound | amod |
| 8 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 awakened | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 saw | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 saw | cc |
| 11 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 saw | advcl |
| 12 | about | about | ADP | _ | 13 him | case |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 looking | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 looking | punct |
| 15 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 awakened | parataxis |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 serpent | det |
| 17 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 serpent | amod |
| 18 | serpent | serpent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 saw | obj |
| 19 | making | make | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 serpent | acl |
| 20 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 way | nmod:poss |
| 21 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 making | obj |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 nest | case |
| 23 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 eagle | det |
| 24 | eagle | eagle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 nest | nmod:poss |
| 25 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 24 eagle | case |
| 26 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 making | obl |
| 27 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 tree | nsubj |
| 28 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 tree | cop |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 tree | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 tree | det |
| 31 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 nest | nmod |
| 32 | beneath | beneath | ADP | _ | 33 which | case |
| 33 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 35 was | obl |
| 34 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 was | nsubj |
| 35 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 tree | cop |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 were | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 were | cc |
| 38 | in | in | ADP | _ | 40 nest | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 nest | det |
| 40 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 were | obl |
| 41 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 saw | conj |
| 42 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 44 eagles | nummod |
| 43 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 eagles | amod |
| 44 | eagles | eagle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 were | nsubj |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 awakened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | awaken | past · passive | a rustling sound | Magician | suddenly property | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location subject=Theme | |||
| 2 | rustle | gerund | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | look | gerund | about Magician | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent about he=Theme | |||||
| 4 | see | past | a large serpent | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer serpent=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | make | gerund | a large serpent not said here | serpent's way | to a eagle's nest | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset way=Product | |||
| 6 | is | past | a eagle's nest | the tree | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | be | past | two young eagles | the nest | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in nest=Location |
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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