The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 8, sentence 2
But instead of hitting the Deer, it struck Small-wit, the Jackal, who was hiding close by, and killed him.
Who acts: husbandman, Small wit · What happens: hit, strike, hide, kill · To what, where: Deer, Small wit
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, Small wit), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 struck | cc |
| 2 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=SCONJ | 4 hitting | mark |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 2 instead | fixed |
| 4 | hitting | hit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 struck | advcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Deer | det |
| 6 | Deer | Deer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 hitting | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 hitting | punct |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 struck | nsubj |
| 9 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | Small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 wit | amod |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 Small | punct |
| 12 | wit | wit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 struck | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Jackal | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Jackal | det |
| 15 | Jackal | Jackal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 wit | appos |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 hiding | punct |
| 17 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 hiding | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 hiding | aux |
| 19 | hiding | hide | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 wit | conj |
| 20 | close | close | ADV | Degree=Pos | 19 hiding | advmod |
| 21 | by | by | ADP | _ | 20 close | fixed |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 killed | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 killed | cc |
| 24 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 struck | conj |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 killed | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 struck | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hit | gerund | husbandman not said here | the Deer | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme deer=Co-Theme | ||||
| 2 | strike | past | husbandman | Small wit | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wit=Patient | ||||
| 3 | hide | past · progressive | Small wit | close property | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | kill | past | husbandman not said here | Deer | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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