The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 9, sentence 48
Thinking that he was looking at the other lion, he flung himself furiously upon his own image, and so was drowned.
Who acts: HARE · What happens: think, look, fling, drown, image · To what, where: HARE, own image · 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), 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 | Thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 flung | advcl |
| 2 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 5 looking | mark |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 looking | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 looking | aux |
| 5 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Thinking | ccomp |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 lion | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 lion | det |
| 8 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 lion | amod |
| 9 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 looking | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Thinking | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 flung | nsubj |
| 12 | flung | fling | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 12 flung | obj |
| 14 | furiously | furiously | ADV | _ | 18 image | advmod |
| 15 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 18 image | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 image | nmod:poss |
| 17 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 image | amod |
| 18 | image | image | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 flung | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 drowned | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 drowned | cc |
| 21 | so | so | ADV | _ | 23 drowned | advmod |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 drowned | aux:pass |
| 23 | drowned | drown | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 flung | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 flung | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | gerund | HARE not said here | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | look | past · progressive | HARE | at the other lion | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at lion=Theme | ||||
| 3 | fling | past | HARE | HARE | HARE's own image | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent himself=Theme upon image=Destination | |||
| 4 | drown | past · passive | HARE not said here | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP» | |||||
| 5 | image | HARE | nom image «cognition 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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