The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 7, sentence 104
“At length he won the old Vulture’s confidence, and went with him into the hollow tree and lived there.
Who acts: Heaven, old Vulture · What happens: win, go, live, confide · To what, where: confidence, length, hollow tree
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Heaven, old Vulture), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 won | punct |
| 2 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 length | case |
| 3 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 won | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 won | nsubj |
| 5 | won | win | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Vulture | det |
| 7 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Vulture | amod |
| 8 | Vulture | Vulture | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 confidence | nmod:poss |
| 9 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 8 Vulture | case |
| 10 | confidence | confidence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 won | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 went | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 went | cc |
| 13 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 won | parataxis |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 him | case |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 went | obl |
| 16 | into | into | ADP | _ | 19 tree | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 tree | det |
| 18 | hollow | hollow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 tree | amod |
| 19 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 went | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 lived | cc |
| 21 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 went | conj |
| 22 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 lived | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 won | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | win in a quote | past | Heaven | the old Vulture's confidence | length | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent confidence=Theme at length=Asset | |||
| 2 | go in a quote | past | the hollow tree | with Heaven | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into tree=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | live in a quote | past | there | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | confide in a quote | the old Vulture | nom confidence «cognition transitive»: 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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