The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 6, sentence 54
While thus engaged he saw the serpent, whose escape he had aided, gliding towards him, carrying in its mouth a stone of three colors, white, black, and red.
Who acts: Guido, serpent · What happens: engage, see, aid, glide, carry, escape · To what, where: serpent, escape, stone, mouth
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, serpent), 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 | While | while | SCONJ | _ | 3 engaged | mark |
| 2 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 3 engaged | advmod |
| 3 | engaged | engage | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 saw | advcl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 saw | nsubj |
| 5 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 serpent | det |
| 7 | serpent | serpent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 saw | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 escape | punct |
| 9 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 10 escape | nmod:poss |
| 10 | escape | escape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 serpent | appos |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 aided | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 aided | aux |
| 13 | aided | aid | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 escape | acl:relcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 gliding | punct |
| 15 | gliding | glide | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 saw | parataxis |
| 16 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 17 him | case |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 gliding | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 carrying | punct |
| 19 | carrying | carry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 gliding | conj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 mouth | case |
| 21 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 22 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 carrying | obl |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 stone | det |
| 24 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 carrying | obj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 colors | case |
| 26 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 27 colors | nummod |
| 27 | colors | color | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 stone | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 white | punct |
| 29 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 colors | amod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 black | punct |
| 31 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 white | conj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 red | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 red | cc |
| 34 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 saw | conj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | engage | past | Guido not said here | thus property | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-2 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | see | past | Guido | the serpent | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer serpent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | aid | past · perfect | Guido | the serpent's escape not said here | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent escape=Beneficiary | ||||
| 4 | glide | gerund | towards Guido | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards he=Destination | |||||
| 5 | carry | gerund | a stone of three colors | escape's mouth | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent stone=Value in mouth=Location | ||||
| 6 | escape | the serpent | nom escape «act intransitive»: 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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