The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 7, sentence 105
And day after day he stole some of the nestlings, and devoured them.
Who acts: Heaven · What happens: steal, devour · To what, where: some, nestlings
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), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 stole | cc |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stole | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | after | after | ADP | _ | 4 day | case |
| 4 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 day | nmod |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 stole | nsubj |
| 6 | stole | steal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 stole | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 nestlings | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 nestlings | det |
| 10 | nestlings | nestling | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 some | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 devoured | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 devoured | cc |
| 13 | devoured | devour | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 stole | conj |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 devoured | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 stole | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | steal | past | Heaven | some of the nestlings | day | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location some=Theme | |||
| 2 | devour | past | Heaven not said here | nestlings = nestling | vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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