The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 7, sentence 73
‘To folks by no one known house-room deny:— The Vulture housed the Cat, and thence did die.’”
Who acts: one, folks · What happens: know, house, die · To what, where: room deny, Cat
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 (one, folks), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 folks | punct |
| 2 | To | to | ADP | _ | 3 folks | case |
| 3 | folks | folk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 housed | nsubj |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 one | case |
| 5 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 6 one | det |
| 6 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 folks | nmod |
| 7 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 one | acl |
| 8 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 room | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 house | punct |
| 10 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 deny | compound |
| 11 | deny | deny | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 known | obj |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 folks | punct |
| 13 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 housed | punct |
| 14 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Vulture | det |
| 15 | Vulture | Vulture | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 housed | nsubj |
| 16 | housed | house | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Cat | det |
| 18 | Cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 housed | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 die | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 die | cc |
| 21 | thence | thence | ADV | _ | 23 die | advmod |
| 22 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 die | aux |
| 23 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 housed | ccomp |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 die | punct |
| 25 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 23 die | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 housed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | participle | no one not said here | room deny | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer deny=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | house | past | folks by no one | the Cat | the Vulture nsubj | tree rules | |||
| 3 | die | past · do-support | folks by no one not said here | thence property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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