The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 7, sentence 68
It was beginning to grow dark when the Crow, whose name was Sharp-sense, saw the two coming home together.
Who acts: wood, name, Crow, Sharp sense · What happens: begin, grow, be, see, come, name · To what, where: Sharp sense, two
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 (wood, name, Crow, Sharp sense), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 beginning | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 beginning | aux |
| 3 | beginning | begin | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 grow | mark |
| 5 | grow | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 beginning | xcomp |
| 6 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 grow | xcomp |
| 7 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 saw | advmod |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Crow | det |
| 9 | Crow | crow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 saw | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 sense | punct |
| 11 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 12 name | nmod:poss |
| 12 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sense | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 sense | cop |
| 14 | Sharp | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 sense | amod |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 Sharp | punct |
| 16 | sense | sense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Crow | appos |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Crow | punct |
| 18 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 grow | advcl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 two | det |
| 20 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 saw | obj |
| 21 | coming | come | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 two | acl |
| 22 | home | home | ADV | _ | 21 coming | advmod |
| 23 | together | together | ADV | _ | 21 coming | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 beginning | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past · progressive | wood | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | grow | to-infinitive | wood not said here | dark property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | Sharp sense's name | Sharp sense | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | see | past | the Crow | the two | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer two=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | come | gerund | home, together property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | name | Sharp sense | nom name «communication transitive»: 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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