The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 8, sentence 35
The Pigeon-king and his followers thanked him for his great kindness, and Golden-skin embraced them all, after which he returned to his hole and the pigeons departed.
Who acts: Pigeon king, Golden skin, tenderness, pigeons · What happens: thank, embrace, return, depart · To what, where: tenderness, KING
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 (Pigeon king, Golden skin, tenderness, pigeons), 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 | 4 king | det |
| 2 | Pigeon | Pigeon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 king | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 Pigeon | punct |
| 4 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 thanked | nsubj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 followers | cc |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 followers | nmod:poss |
| 7 | followers | follower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 king | conj |
| 8 | thanked | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 thanked | obj |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 kindness | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 kindness | nmod:poss |
| 12 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 kindness | amod |
| 13 | kindness | kindness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 thanked | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 embraced | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 embraced | cc |
| 16 | Golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 skin | amod |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 Golden | punct |
| 18 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 embraced | nsubj |
| 19 | embraced | embrace | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 thanked | parataxis |
| 20 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 embraced | obj |
| 21 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 them | nmod:unmarked |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 returned | punct |
| 23 | after | after | ADP | _ | 24 which | case |
| 24 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 returned | obl |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 returned | nsubj |
| 26 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 embraced | conj |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 hole | case |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 hole | nmod:poss |
| 29 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 returned | obl |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 departed | cc |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 pigeons | det |
| 32 | pigeons | pigeon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 departed | nsubj |
| 33 | departed | depart | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 returned | conj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 thanked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | thank speech: thank | past | the Pigeon king and tenderness's followers | tenderness | for tenderness's great kindness | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent he=Theme for kindness=Attribute | |||
| 2 | embrace | past | Golden skin | KING | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | return | past | tenderness | to tenderness's hole result; which obl | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to hole=Result | ||||
| 4 | depart | past | the pigeons | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «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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