The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 7, sentence 120
Just then the Deer saw him and called out, “Friend, please gnaw the strings and set me free.”
Who acts: Deer, you · What happens: see, call out, gnaw, set · To what, where: scheme, Friend, strings, Deer · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Deer, you), 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 | Just | just | ADV | _ | 5 saw | advmod |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 saw | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Deer | det |
| 4 | Deer | Deer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 saw | nsubj |
| 5 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 gnaw | advcl |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 saw | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 called | cc |
| 8 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 saw | conj |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 called | compound:prt |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Friend | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 Friend | punct |
| 12 | Friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 called | xcomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 gnaw | punct |
| 14 | please | please | INTJ | _ | 15 gnaw | discourse |
| 15 | gnaw | gnaw | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 strings | det |
| 17 | strings | string | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 gnaw | obj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 set | cc |
| 19 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 15 gnaw | conj |
| 20 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 set | obj |
| 21 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 set | xcomp |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 gnaw | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 gnaw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the Deer | scheme | then | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | call out speech: assert | participle | the Deer not said here | Friend | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | gnaw in a quote | imperative | you not said here | the strings | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent string=Patient | ||||
| 4 | set in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | the Deer = deer | free property | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient i=Result |
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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