The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 7, sentence 136
The Deer did as he was told, and when the farmer reached the snare, with the Deer in it quite dead, as he thought, he pulled up the net, and so released the captive.
Who acts: farmer · What happens: tell, reach, think, pull up, release · To what, where: Deer, snare, net, captive · 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 (farmer), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Deer | det |
| 2 | Deer | Deer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 told | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 told | aux |
| 4 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 told | mark |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 told | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 told | aux:pass |
| 7 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 reached | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 reached | cc |
| 10 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 13 reached | mark |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 farmer | det |
| 12 | farmer | farmer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 reached | nsubj |
| 13 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 told | parataxis |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 snare | det |
| 15 | snare | snare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 reached | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 Deer | punct |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 Deer | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Deer | det |
| 19 | Deer | Deer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 reached | obj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 it | case |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 Deer | nmod |
| 22 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 23 dead | advmod |
| 23 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 Deer | advcl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 thought | punct |
| 25 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 27 thought | mark |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 thought | nsubj |
| 27 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 reached | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 pulled | punct |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 pulled | nsubj |
| 30 | pulled | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 thought | ccomp |
| 31 | up | up | ADP | _ | 30 pulled | compound:prt |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 net | det |
| 33 | net | net | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 pulled | obj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 released | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 released | cc |
| 36 | so | so | ADV | _ | 37 released | advmod |
| 37 | released | release | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 reached | conj |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 captive | det |
| 39 | captive | captive | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 released | obj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past · passive · do-support | the Deer | DEER nsubj | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | reach | past | the farmer | the snare | the Deer obj | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent snare=Beneficiary deer=Theme | |||
| 3 | think speech: other | past | farmer | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | pull up | past | farmer | the net | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent net=Theme | ||||
| 5 | release | past | the farmer not said here | the captive | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer captive=Source |
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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