The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 7, sentence 77
It was hollow, and inside it dwelt an old Vulture who had lost both eyes and talons, and who was kept alive with food given him by the friendly birds that roosted in the tree.
Who acts: Ganges, old Vulture, food, friendly birds · What happens: be, dwell, lose, keep, give, roost · To what, where: old Vulture, eyes, Vulture, tree
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 (Ganges, old Vulture, food, friendly birds), 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 hollow | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 hollow | cop |
| 3 | hollow | hollow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 dwelt | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 dwelt | cc |
| 6 | inside | inside | ADP | _ | 8 dwelt | mark |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 dwelt | nsubj |
| 8 | dwelt | dwell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 hollow | conj |
| 9 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 Vulture | det |
| 10 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Vulture | amod |
| 11 | Vulture | vulture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 dwelt | obj |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 lost | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 lost | aux |
| 14 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 Vulture | acl:relcl |
| 15 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 eyes | det |
| 16 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 lost | obj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 talons | cc |
| 18 | talons | talon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 eyes | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 kept | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 kept | cc |
| 21 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 kept | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 kept | aux:pass |
| 23 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 hollow | conj |
| 24 | alive | alive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 kept | xcomp |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 food | case |
| 26 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 kept | obl |
| 27 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 food | acl |
| 28 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 given | obj |
| 29 | by | by | ADP | _ | 32 birds | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 birds | det |
| 31 | friendly | friendly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 birds | amod |
| 32 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 given | obl |
| 33 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 34 roosted | nsubj |
| 34 | roosted | roost | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 32 birds | acl:relcl |
| 35 | in | in | ADP | _ | 37 tree | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 tree | det |
| 37 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 roosted | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 hollow | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Ganges | hollow property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | dwell | past | Ganges | a old Vulture | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme vulture=Location | ||||
| 3 | lose | past · perfect | a old Vulture | both eyes and talons | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | keep | past · passive | with food; who nsubj:pass; alive property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 5 | give | participle | food not said here | Vulture | by the friendly birds | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 6 | roost | participle | the friendly birds | the tree | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in tree=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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