The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 9, sentence 46
Then the Hare led the way until he came to a deep well, when he stopped and said, “Now, my Lord, come here and see him.”
Who acts: Hare, Lord · What happens: lead, come, stop, say, see · To what, where: way, deep well, HARE · 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 (Hare, Lord), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 led | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Hare | det |
| 3 | Hare | Hare | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 led | nsubj |
| 4 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 way | det |
| 6 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 led | obj |
| 7 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 9 came | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 came | nsubj |
| 9 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 led | advcl |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 well | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 well | det |
| 12 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 well | amod |
| 13 | well | well | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 came | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 stopped | punct |
| 15 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 stopped | advmod |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 stopped | nsubj |
| 17 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 led | parataxis |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 said | cc |
| 19 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 stopped | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 come | punct |
| 21 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 come | punct |
| 22 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 25 Lord | advmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 Lord | punct |
| 24 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 Lord | nmod:poss |
| 25 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 come | nsubj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 Lord | punct |
| 27 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 said | ccomp |
| 28 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 27 come | advmod |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 see | cc |
| 30 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 come | conj |
| 31 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 see | obj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 led | punct |
| 33 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 led | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lead | past | the Hare | the way | then | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Theme | |||
| 2 | come | past | HARE | a deep well | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to well=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | stop | past | HARE | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | HARE not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | come in a quote | infinitive | my Lord | here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | see in a quote | infinitive | my Lord not said here | HARE | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
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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