The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 15, sentence 27
The son was kind to his mother, and they made their living by growing rice in clearings on the mountain side and by hunting wild pig in the forest.
Who acts: son, houses · What happens: be, make, grow, hunt, live · To what, where: living, rice, clearings, wild pig, forest
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son, houses), 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 son | det |
| 2 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 kind | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 kind | cop |
| 4 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 mother | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 mother | nmod:poss |
| 7 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 kind | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 made | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 made | cc |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 made | nsubj |
| 11 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 kind | parataxis |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 living | nmod:poss |
| 13 | living | living | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 made | obj |
| 14 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 15 growing | mark |
| 15 | growing | grow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 made | advcl |
| 16 | rice | rice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 growing | obj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 clearings | case |
| 18 | clearings | clearing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 growing | obl |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 side | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 side | det |
| 21 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 side | compound |
| 22 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 growing | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 hunting | cc |
| 24 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 25 hunting | mark |
| 25 | hunting | hunt | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 made | conj |
| 26 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 pig | amod |
| 27 | pig | pig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 hunting | obj |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 forest | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 forest | det |
| 30 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 hunting | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 kind | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the son | to Prince's mother; kind property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | make | past | houses = house | houses's living | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset living=Product | ||||
| 3 | grow | gerund | houses = house not said here | rice | clearings | on the mountain side | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location rice=Theme | ||
| 4 | hunt | gerund | houses = house not said here | wild pig | the forest | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent pig=Theme in forest=Location | |||
| 5 | live | houses = house | nom living «cognition intransitive»: 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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