The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 9, sentence 122
The Caliph and Mansor looked on with surprise for some time; but when at last she balanced herself in a picturesque attitude on one leg, and flapped her wings gracefully up and down, they could hold out no longer; a prolonged peal burst from each of their bills, and it was some time before they could recover their composure.
Who acts: Caliph, Mansor, STORK · What happens: look on, balance, flap, hold out, prolong, be · To what, where: Mansor, picturesque attitude, wings, time, composure
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, Mansor, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Caliph | det |
| 2 | Caliph | Caliph | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 looked | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 Mansor | cc |
| 4 | Mansor | Mansor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Caliph | conj |
| 5 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 looked | compound:prt |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 surprise | case |
| 8 | surprise | surprise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 looked | obl |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 time | case |
| 10 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 time | det |
| 11 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 looked | obl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 balanced | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 balanced | cc |
| 14 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 last | advmod |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 last | case |
| 16 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 balanced | xcomp |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 balanced | nsubj |
| 18 | balanced | balance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 looked | conj |
| 19 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 18 balanced | obj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 attitude | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 attitude | det |
| 22 | picturesque | picturesque | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 attitude | amod |
| 23 | attitude | attitude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 balanced | obl |
| 24 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 leg | case |
| 25 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 26 leg | nummod |
| 26 | leg | leg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 balanced | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 flapped | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 flapped | cc |
| 29 | flapped | flap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 looked | parataxis |
| 30 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 wings | nmod:poss |
| 31 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 flapped | obj |
| 32 | gracefully | gracefully | ADV | _ | 33 up | advmod |
| 33 | up | up | ADV | _ | 29 flapped | advmod |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 down | cc |
| 35 | down | down | ADV | _ | 33 up | conj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 hold | punct |
| 37 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 hold | nsubj |
| 38 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 39 hold | aux |
| 39 | hold | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 flapped | conj |
| 40 | out | out | ADP | _ | 39 hold | compound:prt |
| 41 | no | no | ADV | _ | 42 longer | advmod |
| 42 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 39 hold | advmod |
| 43 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 47 burst | punct |
| 44 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 47 burst | det |
| 45 | prolonged | prolong | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 47 burst | amod |
| 46 | peal | peal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 burst | compound |
| 47 | burst | burst | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 looked | parataxis |
| 48 | from | from | ADP | _ | 49 each | case |
| 49 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 47 burst | nmod |
| 50 | of | of | ADP | _ | 52 bills | case |
| 51 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 52 bills | nmod:poss |
| 52 | bills | bill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 49 each | nmod |
| 53 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 58 time | punct |
| 54 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 58 time | cc |
| 55 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 58 time | nsubj |
| 56 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 58 time | cop |
| 57 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 58 time | det |
| 58 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 burst | conj |
| 59 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 62 recover | mark |
| 60 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 62 recover | nsubj |
| 61 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 62 recover | aux |
| 62 | recover | recover | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 58 time | acl |
| 63 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 64 composure | nmod:poss |
| 64 | composure | composure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 62 recover | obj |
| 65 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look on | past | the Caliph and Mansor | time | with surprise; a prolonged peal burst from each of Caliph's bills and some time parataxis | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | balance | past | Mansor | Mansor | a picturesque attitude | on one leg; last property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent herself=Theme in attitude=Location | ||
| 3 | flap | past | Mansor's wings | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wing=Patient | |||||
| 4 | hold out | could | Caliph | long property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | prolong | participle | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 6 | is a | past | STORK | some time | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | recover | could | Caliph | Caliph's composure | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent composure=Theme | ||||
| 8 | bill | Caliph | nom bill «communication transitive»: poss=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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