The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 7, sentence 78
“One day, when the parent birds were away, a Cat came, thinking to make a meal of the young birds, of which there were several.
Who acts: parent birds, Cat · What happens: be, come, think, make · To what, where: meal
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 (parent birds, Cat), 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 | _ | 14 came | punct |
| 2 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 day | nummod |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 came | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 day | punct |
| 5 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 10 away | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 birds | det |
| 7 | parent | parent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 birds | compound |
| 8 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 away | nsubj |
| 9 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 away | cop |
| 10 | away | away | ADV | _ | 3 day | advcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 day | punct |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 Cat | det |
| 13 | Cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 came | nsubj |
| 14 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 thinking | punct |
| 16 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 came | advcl |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 make | mark |
| 18 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 thinking | xcomp |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 meal | det |
| 20 | meal | meal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 make | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 birds | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 birds | det |
| 23 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 birds | amod |
| 24 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 meal | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 were | punct |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 which | case |
| 27 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 were | obl |
| 28 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 29 were | expl |
| 29 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 make | advcl |
| 30 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 make | xcomp |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | past | the parent birds | away property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | come in a quote | past | a Cat | day | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | think speech: other in a quote | gerund | a Cat not said here | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | make in a quote | to-infinitive | a Cat not said here | a meal of the young birds | several property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset meal=Product | |||
| 5 | be in a quote | past | a Cat not said here | there | which obl | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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