The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 1, sentence 97

So the next day Makoma and the giants set out to get poles to build the kraal, leaving only Chi-eswa-mapiri to look after the place and cook some venison which they had killed.

Who acts: next day, poles · What happens: set out, get, build, leave, look, cook · To what, where: poles, kraal, Chi eswa mapiri, venison

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (next day, poles), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	9 set	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 day	det
3	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 day	amod
4	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 set	nsubj
5	Makoma	Makoma	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 day	appos
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 giants	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 giants	det
8	giants	giant	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 Makoma	conj
9	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	out	out	ADP	_	9 set	compound:prt
11	to	to	PART	_	12 get	mark
12	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 set	advcl
13	poles	pole	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 get	obj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 build	mark
15	build	build	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 get	xcomp
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 kraal	det
17	kraal	kraal	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 build	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 leaving	punct
19	leaving	leave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 set	advcl
20	only	only	ADV	_	25 mapiri	advmod
21	Chi	Chi	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 mapiri	compound
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 Chi	punct
23	eswa	eswa	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 mapiri	compound
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 eswa	punct
25	mapiri	mapiri	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 leaving	obj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 look	mark
27	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 leaving	advcl
28	after	after	ADP	_	30 place	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 place	det
30	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 look	obl
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 cook	cc
32	cook	cook	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 look	conj
33	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	34 venison	det
34	venison	venison	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 cook	obj
35	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	38 killed	nsubj:pass
36	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 killed	nsubj:pass
37	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 killed	aux
38	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	34 venison	acl:relcl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 set	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	set out	past	the next day			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	get	to-infinitive	the next day not said here	poles		tree rules
3	build	to-infinitive	poles not said here	the kraal		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset kraal=Product
4	leave	gerund	the next day not said here	Chi eswa mapiri		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mapiri=Theme
5	look	to-infinitive	the next day not said here		after the place	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
6	cook	infinitive	the next day not said here	some venison		vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent venison=Patient
7	kill	past · perfect · passive		some venison		vn remove-10.1 «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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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