The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 9, sentence 40
So, from that time a beast was allotted to him each day, they casting lots among themselves to see who should be selected.
Who acts: animals · What happens: allot, cast, see, select · To what, where: beast, petition, lots · 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 (animals), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 9 allotted | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 So | punct |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 time | case |
| 4 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 time | det |
| 5 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 allotted | obl |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 beast | det |
| 7 | beast | beast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 allotted | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 allotted | aux:pass |
| 9 | allotted | allot | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 him | case |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 allotted | obl |
| 12 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 day | det |
| 13 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 allotted | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 casting | punct |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 casting | nsubj |
| 16 | casting | cast | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 allotted | advcl |
| 17 | lots | lot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 casting | obj |
| 18 | among | among | ADP | _ | 19 themselves | case |
| 19 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 16 casting | obl |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 see | mark |
| 21 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 casting | advcl |
| 22 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 selected | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 selected | aux |
| 24 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 25 selected | aux:pass |
| 25 | selected | select | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 see | ccomp |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 allotted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | allot | past · passive | a beast | petition | day; time | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: subject=Theme to he=Goal | |||
| 2 | cast | gerund | animals = animal | lots | among animals = animal | vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent lot=Theme among themselves=Destination | |||
| 3 | see | to-infinitive | animals = animal not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | select | should · passive | who nsubj:pass | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=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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