The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 4, sentence 57
At this moment a rushing sound was heard in the air, and the two old eagles, who had been hunting food for their little ones, returned.
Who acts: two old eagles, little ones · What happens: rush, hear, hunt, return · To what, where: rushing sound, air, food
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 (two old eagles, little ones), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 moment | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 moment | det |
| 3 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 heard | obl |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 sound | det |
| 5 | rushing | rush | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 sound | amod |
| 6 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 heard | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 heard | aux:pass |
| 8 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 air | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 air | det |
| 11 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 heard | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 eagles | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 eagles | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 eagles | det |
| 15 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 eagles | nummod |
| 16 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 eagles | amod |
| 17 | eagles | eagle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 heard | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 hunting | punct |
| 19 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 hunting | nsubj |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 hunting | aux |
| 21 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 22 hunting | aux |
| 22 | hunting | hunt | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 eagles | acl |
| 23 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 hunting | obj |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 ones | case |
| 25 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 ones | nmod:poss |
| 26 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 ones | amod |
| 27 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 hunting | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 returned | punct |
| 29 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 ones | acl:relcl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rush | gerund | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | hear | past · passive | a rushing sound | the air | moment | the two old eagles obl | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus | ||
| 3 | hunt | past · perfect · progressive | the two old eagles | food | for trees's little ones | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent food=Location for one=Theme | |||
| 4 | return | past | trees's little ones not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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