The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 8, sentence 4
A fowler, seeking to snare some birds, set a trap with which he might catch them.
Who acts: fowler · What happens: seek, snare, set, catch · To what, where: birds, trap
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 (fowler), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 fowler | det |
| 2 | fowler | fowler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 set | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 seeking | punct |
| 4 | seeking | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 fowler | acl |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 snare | mark |
| 6 | snare | snare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 seeking | xcomp |
| 7 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 birds | det |
| 8 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 snare | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 set | punct |
| 10 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 trap | det |
| 12 | trap | trap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 set | obj |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 which | case |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 catch | obl |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 catch | nsubj |
| 16 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 catch | aux |
| 17 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 trap | acl:relcl |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 catch | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seek | gerund | a fowler not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | snare not said to happen | to-infinitive | a fowler not said here | some birds | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent bird=Theme | ||||
| 3 | set | infinitive | a fowler | a trap | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient trap=Result | ||||
| 4 | catch | might | fowler | birds = bird | with a trap | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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