The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 15, sentence 33

At last, when he had travelled far and the sun was hot, he sat down on a rock to rest and took out his brass box to get a piece of betel-nut.

Who acts: distance, sun · What happens: travell, be, sit down, rest, take out, get · To what, where: last, rock, brass box, piece

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 (distance, sun), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 last	case
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 travelled	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 travelled	punct
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 travelled	advmod
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 travelled	nsubj
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 travelled	aux
7	travelled	travell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 travelled	advmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 hot	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 sun	det
11	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 hot	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 hot	cop
13	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 far	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 sat	punct
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 sat	nsubj
16	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 travelled	parataxis
17	down	down	ADP	_	16 sat	compound:prt
18	on	on	ADP	_	20 rock	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 rock	det
20	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 sat	obl
21	to	to	PART	_	22 rest	mark
22	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 sat	advcl
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 took	cc
24	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 sat	conj
25	out	out	ADP	_	24 took	compound:prt
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 box	nmod:poss
27	brass	brass	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 box	compound
28	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 took	obj
29	to	to	PART	_	30 get	mark
30	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 took	advcl
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 piece	det
32	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 get	obj
33	of	of	ADP	_	36 nut	case
34	betel	betel	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 nut	compound
35	-	-	PUNCT	_	34 betel	punct
36	nut	nut	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 piece	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 travelled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	travell	past · perfect	distance		last	far property	tree rules
2	is	past	the sun			hot property	tree rules
3	sit down	past	distance		a rock		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on rock=Location
4	rest	to-infinitive	distance not said here				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	take out	past	distance not said here	distance's brass box			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent box=Theme
6	get	to-infinitive	distance not said here	a piece of betel nut			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer piece=Stimulus

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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🌲 The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 15, sentence 33

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The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 15, sentence 33