The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 15, sentence 50
He drank seven cups of wine, and then they ate rice and fish and talked together.
Who acts: master, cups · What happens: drink, eat, talk · To what, where: seven cups, 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 (master, cups), 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 drank | nsubj |
| 2 | drank | drink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 cups | nummod |
| 4 | cups | cup | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 drank | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 wine | case |
| 6 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cups | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 ate | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 ate | cc |
| 9 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 ate | advmod |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 ate | nsubj |
| 11 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 drank | parataxis |
| 12 | rice | rice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 ate | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 fish | cc |
| 14 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 rice | conj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 talked | cc |
| 16 | talked | talk | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 ate | conj |
| 17 | together | together | ADV | _ | 16 talked | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 drank | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drink | past | master | seven cups of wine | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cup=Patient | ||||
| 2 | eat | past | cups = cup | rice and fish | then | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rice=Patient | |||
| 3 | talk | participle | cups = cup not said here | together property | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=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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