The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 6, sentence 24
By his order various pits were dug there, and covered with leaves, for the purpose of catching wild beasts.
Who acts: order, purpose, man · What happens: dig, cover, catch, order · To what, where: various pits, wild beasts
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (order, purpose, 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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 3 order | case |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 order | nmod:poss |
| 3 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 dug | obl |
| 4 | various | various | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 pits | amod |
| 5 | pits | pit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 dug | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 dug | aux:pass |
| 7 | dug | dig | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 dug | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 covered | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 covered | cc |
| 11 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 dug | conj |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 leaves | case |
| 13 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 covered | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 purpose | punct |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 purpose | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 purpose | det |
| 17 | purpose | purpose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 covered | conj |
| 18 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 19 catching | mark |
| 19 | catching | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 purpose | acl |
| 20 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 beasts | amod |
| 21 | beasts | beast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 catching | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 dug | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dig | past · passive | man's order | various pits | there | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | |||
| 2 | cover | participle | man's order not said here | with leaves; the purpose conj | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with leaf=Theme | ||||
| 3 | catch | gerund | the purpose not said here | wild beasts | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beast=Theme | ||||
| 4 | order | man | nom order «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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