The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 14, sentence 69
Fill your bottle without alighting, and return with the same speed.
Who acts: you · What happens: fill, alight, return · To what, where: bottle
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 | Fill | fill | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 bottle | nmod:poss |
| 3 | bottle | bottle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Fill | obj |
| 4 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 5 alighting | mark |
| 5 | alighting | alight | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Fill | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 return | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 return | cc |
| 8 | return | return | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Fill | conj |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 speed | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 speed | det |
| 11 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 speed | amod |
| 12 | speed | speed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 return | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Fill | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fill | imperative | you not said here | your bottle | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent bottle=Patient | ||||
| 2 | alight | gerund | you not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | return | infinitive | you not said here | with the same speed | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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 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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