The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 7, sentence 7
He saw the eldest one come to the stone close to his head and lift it up, but there was no paper bag beneath it.
Who acts: Chô, eldest one, paper bag · What happens: see, come, lift up, be · To what, where: eldest one, stone, head
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 (Chô, eldest one, paper bag), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 saw | nsubj |
| 2 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 one | det |
| 4 | eldest | eld | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 one | amod |
| 5 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 saw | obj |
| 6 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 saw | xcomp |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 stone | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 stone | det |
| 9 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 come | obl |
| 10 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 stone | amod |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 head | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 head | nmod:poss |
| 13 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 close | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 lift | cc |
| 15 | lift | lift | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 come | conj |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 lift | obj |
| 17 | up | up | ADP | _ | 15 lift | compound:prt |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 was | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 was | cc |
| 20 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 21 was | expl |
| 21 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 saw | parataxis |
| 22 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 24 bag | det |
| 23 | paper | paper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 bag | compound |
| 24 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 was | nsubj |
| 25 | beneath | beneath | ADP | _ | 26 it | case |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 was | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | Chô | the eldest one | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | come | infinitive | the eldest one not said here | the stone | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to stone=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | lift up | infinitive | the eldest one not said here | head | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 4 | be | past | no paper bag | head; there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme beneath it=Location |
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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