The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 6, sentence 34
But before he could do this, the lion leaped forward, and seizing upon the cord, was drawn up in his stead, and showing signs of the greatest pleasure, ran off into the wood.
Who acts: man, lion · What happens: do, leap, seize, draw up, show, run off · To what, where: this, stead, signs, wood, greatest pleasure
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 (man, lion), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 leaped | cc |
| 2 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 5 do | mark |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 do | nsubj |
| 4 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 do | aux |
| 5 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 leaped | advcl |
| 6 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 do | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 do | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 lion | det |
| 9 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 leaped | nsubj |
| 10 | leaped | leap | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 10 leaped | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 drawn | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 drawn | cc |
| 14 | seizing | seize | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 drawn | advcl |
| 15 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 17 cord | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 cord | det |
| 17 | cord | cord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 seizing | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 seizing | punct |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 drawn | aux:pass |
| 20 | drawn | draw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 leaped | conj |
| 21 | up | up | ADP | _ | 20 drawn | compound:prt |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 stead | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 stead | nmod:poss |
| 24 | stead | stead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 drawn | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 showing | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 showing | cc |
| 27 | showing | show | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 drawn | advcl |
| 28 | signs | sign | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 showing | obj |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 pleasure | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 pleasure | det |
| 31 | greatest | great | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 32 pleasure | amod |
| 32 | pleasure | pleasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 signs | nmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 ran | punct |
| 34 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 showing | conj |
| 35 | off | off | ADP | _ | 34 ran | compound:prt |
| 36 | into | into | ADP | _ | 38 wood | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 wood | det |
| 38 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 ran | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 leaped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | could | man | this | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | leap | participle | the lion | forward property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | seize | gerund | upon the cord | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | draw up | past · passive | the lion not said here | man's stead | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: in stead=Destination | ||||
| 5 | show | gerund | the lion not said here | signs of the greatest pleasure | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent sign=Recipient | ||||
| 6 | run off | past | the lion not said here | into the wood result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into wood=Result | ||||
| 7 | sign | the greatest pleasure | nom sign «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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