The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 7, sentence 3
To his delight they came, and he lost no time in driving them away, pursuing them to the field where Musai had slept and dreamed.
Who acts: birds, Chô, time, Musai · What happens: come, lose, drive away, pursue, sleep, dream · To what, where: delight, birds, field
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 (birds, Chô, time, Musai), 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 | To | to | ADP | _ | 3 delight | case |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 delight | nmod:poss |
| 3 | delight | delight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | obl |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 came | nsubj |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 lost | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 lost | cc |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 lost | nsubj |
| 9 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 came | conj |
| 10 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 11 time | det |
| 11 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lost | obj |
| 12 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 13 driving | mark |
| 13 | driving | drive | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 time | acl |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 driving | obj |
| 15 | away | away | ADV | _ | 13 driving | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 pursuing | punct |
| 17 | pursuing | pursue | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 lost | advcl |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 pursuing | obj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 field | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 field | det |
| 21 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 pursuing | obl |
| 22 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 25 slept | advmod |
| 23 | Musai | Musai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 slept | nsubj |
| 24 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 slept | aux |
| 25 | slept | sleep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 21 field | acl:relcl |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 dreamed | cc |
| 27 | dreamed | dream | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 25 slept | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | birds = bird | Chô's delight | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to delight=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | lose | past | Chô | time | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | drive away | gerund | no time not said here | birds = bird | away property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme they=Trajectory | |||
| 4 | pursue | gerund | Chô not said here | birds = bird | the field | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Theme to field=Trajectory | |||
| 5 | sleep | past · perfect | Musai | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | dream | participle | Musai not said here | vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | delight | Chô | nom delight «feeling intransitive»: 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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