The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 9, sentence 62
The slave soon returned, followed by the pedler, a short, stout man with a swarthy face, and dressed in very ragged clothes.
Who acts: slave · What happens: return, follow, dress · To what, where: ragged clothes
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 (slave), 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 slave | det |
| 2 | slave | slave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 returned | nsubj |
| 3 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 returned | advmod |
| 4 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 followed | punct |
| 6 | followed | follow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 returned | conj |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 pedler | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 pedler | det |
| 9 | pedler | pedler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 followed | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 man | punct |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 man | det |
| 12 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 man | amod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 short | punct |
| 14 | stout | stout | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 man | amod |
| 15 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 pedler | appos |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 face | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 face | det |
| 18 | swarthy | swarthy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 face | amod |
| 19 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 man | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 dressed | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 dressed | cc |
| 22 | dressed | dress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 returned | conj |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 clothes | case |
| 24 | very | very | ADV | _ | 25 ragged | advmod |
| 25 | ragged | ragged | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 clothes | amod |
| 26 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 22 dressed | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past | the slave | soon property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | follow | participle | the slave not said here | by the pedler | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by pedler=Location | ||||
| 3 | dress | participle | the slave not said here | ragged clothes | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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