The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 9, sentence 41
Thus it became the turn of a wily old Hare to supply the royal table, and as he walked slowly along to keep his appointment he said to himself, “If I have to die I will take my time, and will go to my death as leisurely as possible.”
Who acts: beast, HARE, my · What happens: become, supply, walk, keep, say, have · To what, where: turn, royal table, appointment, HARE, death · 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 (beast, HARE, my), 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 | Thus | thus | ADV | _ | 3 became | advmod |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 became | nsubj |
| 3 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 turn | det |
| 5 | turn | turn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 became | xcomp |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Hare | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 Hare | det |
| 8 | wily | wily | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Hare | amod |
| 9 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Hare | amod |
| 10 | Hare | Hare | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 turn | nmod |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 supply | mark |
| 12 | supply | supply | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 turn | acl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 table | det |
| 14 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 table | amod |
| 15 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 supply | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 walked | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 walked | cc |
| 18 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 20 walked | mark |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 walked | nsubj |
| 20 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 became | conj |
| 21 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 20 walked | advmod |
| 22 | along | along | ADP | _ | 24 keep | mark |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 keep | mark |
| 24 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 walked | advcl |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 appointment | nmod:poss |
| 26 | appointment | appointment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 keep | obj |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 said | nsubj |
| 28 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 appointment | acl:relcl |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 himself | case |
| 30 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 28 said | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 take | punct |
| 32 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 40 take | punct |
| 33 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 35 have | mark |
| 34 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 35 have | nsubj |
| 35 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 40 take | advcl |
| 36 | to | to | PART | _ | 37 die | mark |
| 37 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 have | xcomp |
| 38 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 40 take | nsubj |
| 39 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 40 take | aux |
| 40 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 said | ccomp |
| 41 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 time | nmod:poss |
| 42 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 take | obj |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 go | punct |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 go | cc |
| 45 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 46 go | aux |
| 46 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 became | parataxis |
| 47 | to | to | ADP | _ | 49 death | case |
| 48 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 49 death | nmod:poss |
| 49 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 go | obl |
| 50 | as | as | ADV | _ | 51 leisurely | advmod |
| 51 | leisurely | leisurely | ADV | _ | 46 go | advmod |
| 52 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 53 possible | mark |
| 53 | possible | possible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 51 leisurely | advcl |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 46 go | punct |
| 55 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 became | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | past | beast | the turn of a wily old Hare | thus property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | supply | to-infinitive | beast not said here | the royal table | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent table=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | walk | past | HARE | slowly property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | keep | to-infinitive | HARE not said here | HARE's appointment | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent appointment=Theme | ||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | past | HARE | HARE's appointment not said here | HARE | tree rules | |||
| 6 | have a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | HARE | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | die in a quote | to-infinitive | HARE not said here | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 8 | take in a quote | future | HARE | time | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 9 | go in a quote | future | my death | leisurely property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to death=Initial_Location | ||||
| 10 | die in a quote | my | nom death «event intransitive»: 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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