The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 6, sentence 36
A third time Guido lowered the rope, and this time the serpent, twining around it, was drawn up, and showing signs of gratitude to the peasant, escaped.
Who acts: third time, time · What happens: lower, serpent, twine, draw up, show, escape · To what, where: rope, signs, peasant, gratitude
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 (third time, time), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 time | det |
| 2 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 time | amod |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lowered | nsubj |
| 4 | Guido | Guido | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 time | appos |
| 5 | lowered | lower | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 rope | det |
| 7 | rope | rope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lowered | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 serpent | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 serpent | cc |
| 10 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 time | det |
| 11 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 serpent | nsubj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 serpent | det |
| 13 | serpent | serpent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lowered | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 twining | punct |
| 15 | twining | twine | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 lowered | advcl |
| 16 | around | around | ADP | _ | 17 it | case |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 twining | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 drawn | 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 | 5 lowered | parataxis |
| 21 | up | up | ADP | _ | 20 drawn | compound:prt |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 showing | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 showing | cc |
| 24 | showing | show | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 drawn | advcl |
| 25 | signs | sign | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 showing | obj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 gratitude | case |
| 27 | gratitude | gratitude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 signs | nmod |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 peasant | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 peasant | det |
| 30 | peasant | peasant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 showing | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 escaped | punct |
| 32 | escaped | escape | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 lowered | conj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 lowered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lower | past | a third time | the rope | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rope=Theme | ||||
| 2 | serpent | this time | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | twine | gerund | a third time not said here | rope | vn coil-9.6 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme around it=Destination | ||||
| 4 | draw up | past · passive | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V» | ||||||
| 5 | show | gerund | signs of gratitude | the peasant | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent sign=Topic to peasant=Recipient | ||||
| 6 | escape | past | a third time not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | sign | gratitude | 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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