The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 8, sentence 11
At this they all settled on the ground, and soon were caught in the net.
What happens: settle, catch · To what, where: this, ground, net
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: 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 this | case |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 settled | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 settled | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 settled | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | settled | settle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 ground | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 ground | det |
| 8 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 settled | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 caught | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 caught | cc |
| 11 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 caught | advmod |
| 12 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Sub Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 caught | aux:pass |
| 13 | caught | catch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 settled | conj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 net | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 net | det |
| 16 | net | net | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 caught | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 settled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | settle | participle · passive | this | the ground | followers = follower nsubj:pass | vn odge-46-1 «NP V ADV»: subject=Location | |||
| 2 | catch | past · passive | the net | soon property | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP» |
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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