The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 7, sentence 46
As she was on the point of passing him Abibas drew forth the piece of silk, and threw it at her feet.
Who acts: Abibas, point · What happens: be, pass, draw, throw · To what, where: king, piece, feet
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 (Abibas, point), 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 | As | as | ADP | _ | 6 point | case |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 point | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 point | cop |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 point | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 point | det |
| 6 | point | point | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 drew | obl |
| 7 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 8 passing | mark |
| 8 | passing | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 point | acl |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 passing | obj |
| 10 | Abibas | Abibas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 drew | nsubj |
| 11 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 11 drew | advmod |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 piece | det |
| 14 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 drew | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 silk | case |
| 16 | silk | silk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 piece | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 threw | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 threw | cc |
| 19 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 drew | conj |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 threw | obj |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 23 feet | case |
| 22 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 feet | nmod:poss |
| 23 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 threw | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 drew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Abibas | as the point | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | pass | gerund | the point not said here | king | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme he=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | draw | past | Abibas | the piece of silk | forth property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Theme | |||
| 4 | throw | past | Abibas not said here | piece | Abibas's feet | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme at foot=Destination |
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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