The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 7, sentence 132
Early in the morning the master of the field, carrying a club in his hand, came to see if the snare had caught the Deer.
Who acts: master · What happens: carry, come, see, catch · To what, where: club, hand, snare
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 (master), 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 | Early | early | ADV | Degree=Pos | 18 came | advmod |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 morning | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 morning | det |
| 4 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 came | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 master | det |
| 6 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 came | nsubj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 field | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 field | det |
| 9 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 master | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 carrying | punct |
| 11 | carrying | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 master | acl |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 club | det |
| 13 | club | club | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 carrying | obj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 hand | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 hand | nmod:poss |
| 16 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 carrying | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 hand | punct |
| 18 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 see | mark |
| 20 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 came | advcl |
| 21 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 25 caught | mark |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 snare | det |
| 23 | snare | snare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 caught | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 caught | aux |
| 25 | caught | catch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 see | ccomp |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 Deer | det |
| 27 | Deer | Deer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 caught | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | gerund | the master of the field not said here | a club | CROW's hand | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent club=Value in hand=Location | |||
| 2 | come | past | the master of the field | morning | early property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | see | to-infinitive | the master of the field not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | catch a condition, not said to happen | past · perfect · passive | the snare | the Deer obj | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary deer=Theme |
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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