The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 15, sentence 77
After that the widow’s son stopped only long enough to burn the giant’s house, and then rushed on looking for someone else to slay.
Who acts: son · What happens: stop, burn, rush, look, slay · To what, where: house
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), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 2 that | case |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 stopped | obl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 widow | det |
| 4 | widow | widow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 son | nmod:poss |
| 5 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 4 widow | case |
| 6 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stopped | nsubj |
| 7 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | only | only | ADV | _ | 9 long | advmod |
| 9 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 stopped | advmod |
| 10 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 9 long | advmod |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 burn | mark |
| 12 | burn | burn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 stopped | advcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 giant | det |
| 14 | giant | giant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 house | nmod:poss |
| 15 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 14 giant | case |
| 16 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 burn | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 rushed | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 rushed | cc |
| 19 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 rushed | advmod |
| 20 | rushed | rush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 stopped | parataxis |
| 21 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 22 looking | mark |
| 22 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 rushed | advcl |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 someone | case |
| 24 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 22 looking | obl |
| 25 | else | else | ADV | _ | 24 someone | advmod |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 slay | mark |
| 27 | slay | slay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 looking | advcl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 stopped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | past | the widow's son | after that | long property | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | burn | to-infinitive | the widow's son not said here | the giant's house | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent house=Theme | ||||
| 3 | rush | past | then | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | look | gerund | for someone | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for someone=Theme | |||||
| 5 | slay | to-infinitive | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: 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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