The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 8, sentence 9
They were all hungry, and the younger ones did not wish to wait while the older and wiser pigeons took counsel together, but this they had to do.
Who acts: followers, younger ones, older pigeons, this · What happens: be, not wish, wait, take, have, do · To what, where: counsel
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 (followers, younger ones, older pigeons, this), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 hungry | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 hungry | cop |
| 3 | all | all | ADV | _ | 4 hungry | advmod |
| 4 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 wish | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 wish | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 ones | det |
| 8 | younger | young | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 9 ones | amod |
| 9 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 wish | nsubj |
| 10 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 wish | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 wish | advmod |
| 12 | wish | wish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 hungry | ccomp |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 wait | mark |
| 14 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 wish | xcomp |
| 15 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 21 took | mark |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 pigeons | det |
| 17 | older | old | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 20 pigeons | amod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 wiser | cc |
| 19 | wiser | wise | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 17 older | conj |
| 20 | pigeons | pigeon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 took | nsubj |
| 21 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 wait | advcl |
| 22 | counsel | counsel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 took | obj |
| 23 | together | together | ADV | _ | 21 took | advmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 had | punct |
| 25 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 28 had | cc |
| 26 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 28 had | nsubj |
| 27 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 had | nsubj |
| 28 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 hungry | conj |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 do | mark |
| 30 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 had | xcomp |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 hungry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | followers = follower | all, hungry property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not wish | past · do-support | the younger ones | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | wait not said to happen | to-infinitive | the younger ones not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | take | past | the older pigeons | counsel | together property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent counsel=Theme | |||
| 5 | have | past | this | followers = follower nsubj | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | do | to-infinitive | this not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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