The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 8, sentence 1
The husbandman was in a great rage at thus being outwitted, and threw his club at the fleeing Deer with all his might.
Who acts: husbandman · What happens: be, outwit, throw · To what, where: great rage, club, fleeing
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (husbandman), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 husbandman | det |
| 2 | husbandman | husbandman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 rage | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 rage | cop |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 rage | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 rage | det |
| 6 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 rage | amod |
| 7 | rage | rage | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 11 outwitted | mark |
| 9 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 11 outwitted | advmod |
| 10 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 outwitted | aux:pass |
| 11 | outwitted | outwit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 rage | advcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 threw | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 threw | cc |
| 14 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 rage | parataxis |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 club | nmod:poss |
| 16 | club | club | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 threw | obj |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 fleeing | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 fleeing | det |
| 19 | fleeing | fleeing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 threw | obl |
| 20 | Deer | Deer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 fleeing | appos |
| 21 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 24 might | mark |
| 22 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 24 might | det:predet |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 might | nmod:poss |
| 24 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 threw | advcl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 rage | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the husbandman | a great rage | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | outwit | gerund · passive | the husbandman not said here | thus property | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP» | ||||
| 3 | throw | past | his club | the fleeing | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent club=Theme at fleeing=Destination |
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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