The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 6, sentence 45
One day, while thus employed, he saw afar off ten asses laden with packs, and a lion following close on them.
Who acts: Guido, lion · What happens: employ, see, lade, follow · To what, where: afar ten asses
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, 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 saw | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 saw | punct |
| 4 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 6 employed | mark |
| 5 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 6 employed | advmod |
| 6 | employed | employ | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 saw | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 employed | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 saw | nsubj |
| 9 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | afar | afar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 asses | amod |
| 11 | off | off | ADP | _ | 10 afar | compound:prt |
| 12 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 asses | nummod |
| 13 | asses | ass | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 saw | obj |
| 14 | laden | lade | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 asses | acl |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 packs | case |
| 16 | packs | pack | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 laden | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 following | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 following | cc |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 lion | det |
| 20 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 following | nsubj |
| 21 | following | follow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 saw | parataxis |
| 22 | close | close | ADV | Degree=Pos | 21 following | advmod |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 them | case |
| 24 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 following | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | employ | participle | Guido not said here | thus property | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | see | past | Guido | afar ten asses | day | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ass=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | lade | participle | afar ten asses not said here | with packs | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | follow | gerund | a lion | on packs = pack; close property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on they=Location |
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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