The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 6, sentence 35
Guido again let down the rope, and this time the monkey, who had noted the lion’s success, jumped over the man’s head and, shaking the cord, was in like manner set at liberty, and hastened to his own haunts.
Who acts: Guido · What happens: let down, note, jump, shake, be, set · To what, where: rope, monkey, head, cord, manner, liberty
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 (Guido), 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 | Guido | Guido | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 let | nsubj |
| 2 | again | again | ADV | _ | 3 let | advmod |
| 3 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | down | down | ADP | _ | 3 let | compound:prt |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 rope | det |
| 6 | rope | rope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 let | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 noted | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 noted | cc |
| 9 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 time | det |
| 10 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 noted | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 monkey | det |
| 12 | monkey | monkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 noted | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 noted | punct |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 noted | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 noted | aux |
| 16 | noted | note | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 let | parataxis |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 lion | det |
| 18 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 success | nmod:poss |
| 19 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 18 lion | case |
| 20 | success | success | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 noted | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 jumped | punct |
| 22 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 noted | conj |
| 23 | over | over | ADP | _ | 27 head | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 man | det |
| 25 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 head | nmod:poss |
| 26 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 25 man | case |
| 27 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 jumped | obl |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 shaking | cc |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 shaking | punct |
| 30 | shaking | shake | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 jumped | conj |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 cord | det |
| 32 | cord | cord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 shaking | obj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 manner | punct |
| 34 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 manner | cop |
| 35 | in | in | ADP | _ | 37 manner | case |
| 36 | like | like | ADP | _ | 37 manner | case |
| 37 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 jumped | obl |
| 38 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 37 manner | acl |
| 39 | at | at | ADP | _ | 40 liberty | case |
| 40 | liberty | liberty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 set | obl |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 hastened | punct |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 hastened | cc |
| 43 | hastened | hasten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 jumped | conj |
| 44 | to | to | ADP | _ | 47 haunts | case |
| 45 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 47 haunts | nmod:poss |
| 46 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 haunts | amod |
| 47 | haunts | haunt | NOUN | Number=Plur | 43 hastened | obl |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let down | infinitive | Guido | the rope | again | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rope=Theme | |||
| 2 | note | past · perfect · passive | the monkey | time | who nsubj; the lion's success obj | tree rules | |||
| 3 | jump | past | the man's head | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over head=Trajectory | |||||
| 4 | shake | gerund | the cord | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent cord=Patient | |||||
| 5 | is | past | manner | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | set | participle | manner not said here | liberty | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent at liberty=Destination | ||||
| 7 | hasten | participle | man's own haunts | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to haunt=Destination |
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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