The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 8, sentence 7
Of course he saw the rice-grains, and thought it very unusual that they should be lying on the ground in so lonely a spot as this was.
Who acts: fowler, grains · What happens: see, think, be, lie · To what, where: rice grains, course, ground · Speech: someone speaks here
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, grains), 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 | Of | of | ADP | ExtPos=ADV | 4 saw | advmod |
| 2 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Of | fixed |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 saw | nsubj |
| 4 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 grains | det |
| 6 | rice | rice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 grains | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 rice | punct |
| 8 | grains | grain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 saw | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 thought | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 thought | cc |
| 11 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 saw | conj |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 thought | obj |
| 13 | very | very | ADV | _ | 14 unusual | advmod |
| 14 | unusual | unusual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 thought | ccomp |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 lying | mark |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 lying | nsubj |
| 17 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 lying | aux |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 lying | aux |
| 19 | lying | lie | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 unusual | advcl |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 ground | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 ground | det |
| 22 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 lying | obl |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 spot | case |
| 24 | so | so | ADV | _ | 25 lonely | advmod |
| 25 | lonely | lonely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 spot | amod |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 spot | det |
| 27 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 lying | obl |
| 28 | as | as | ADP | _ | 29 this | case |
| 29 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 lying | obl |
| 30 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 unusual | cop |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | fowler | the rice grains | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer grain=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | fowler not said here | course | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | past | unusual property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | lie | should · progressive | grains = grain | the ground | in a lonely spot; as this | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on ground=Location |
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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