The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 15, sentence 30
So the widow rose early and cooked the rice, and at dawn the boy started out with his spear and dog.
Who acts: widow, boy · What happens: rise, cook, start out · To what, where: rice
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 (widow, boy), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 rose | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 widow | det |
| 3 | widow | widow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 rose | nsubj |
| 4 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | early | early | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 rose | advmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 cooked | cc |
| 7 | cooked | cook | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 rose | conj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 rice | det |
| 9 | rice | rice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cooked | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 started | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 started | cc |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 dawn | case |
| 13 | dawn | dawn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 started | obl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 boy | det |
| 15 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 started | nsubj |
| 16 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 rose | conj |
| 17 | out | out | ADP | _ | 16 started | compound:prt |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 spear | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 spear | nmod:poss |
| 20 | spear | spear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 started | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 dog | cc |
| 22 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 spear | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 rose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise | past | the widow | early property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | cook | past | the widow not said here | the rice | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent rice=Patient | ||||
| 3 | start out | past | the boy | dawn | with boy's spear and dog | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with spear=Subeventuality |
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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