The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 15, sentence 34
He prepared the nut and leaf for chewing, and as he did so he wondered why it was that he had been so unsuccessful that day.
Who acts: distance, nut · What happens: prepare, chew, do, wonder, be · To what, where: nut, unsuccessful day
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, nut), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 prepared | nsubj |
| 2 | prepared | prepare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 nut | det |
| 4 | nut | nut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 prepared | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 leaf | cc |
| 6 | leaf | leaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 nut | conj |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 chewing | case |
| 8 | chewing | chew | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 prepared | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 wondered | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 wondered | cc |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 13 did | mark |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 did | nsubj |
| 13 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 wondered | advcl |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 wondered | advmod |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 wondered | nsubj |
| 16 | wondered | wonder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 prepared | conj |
| 17 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 27 day | advmod |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 day | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 day | cop |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 unsuccessful | mark |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 unsuccessful | nsubj |
| 22 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 unsuccessful | aux |
| 23 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 25 unsuccessful | cop |
| 24 | so | so | ADV | _ | 25 unsuccessful | advmod |
| 25 | unsuccessful | unsuccessful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 day | amod |
| 26 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 27 day | det |
| 27 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 wondered | obl:unmarked |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 prepared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | prepare | past | distance | the nut and leaf | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nut=Patient | ||||
| 2 | chew | gerund | distance not said here | vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | do | past | distance | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | wonder speech: ask | past | distance | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | is | past · perfect | distance | unsuccessful property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | is a | past | nut | that unsuccessful day | tree rules |
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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