The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 9, sentence 102
As the Caliph spoke he saw the second stork circling round his head and gradually flying towards the earth.
Who acts: Caliph, Heaven, second stork · What happens: speak, see, circle, fly · To what, where: second stork, earth · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Caliph, Heaven, second stork), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 spoke | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Caliph | det |
| 3 | Caliph | Caliph | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 spoke | nsubj |
| 4 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 saw | nsubj |
| 6 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 spoke | ccomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 stork | det |
| 8 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 9 stork | amod |
| 9 | stork | stork | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 saw | obj |
| 10 | circling | circle | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 stork | acl |
| 11 | round | round | ADP | _ | 13 head | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 head | nmod:poss |
| 13 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 circling | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 flying | cc |
| 15 | gradually | gradually | ADV | _ | 16 flying | advmod |
| 16 | flying | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 circling | conj |
| 17 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 19 earth | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 earth | det |
| 19 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 flying | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 spoke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | past | the Caliph | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | see | past | Heaven | the second stork | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer stork=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | circle | gerund | the second stork not said here | round Heaven's head | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | fly | gerund | the second stork not said here | the earth | gradually property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards earth=Destination |
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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