The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 15, sentence 86
When he had told them his story, they hastened to get wine, and all day they bore jarsful to the widow’s house.
Who acts: SON, people · What happens: tell, hasten, get, bear · To what, where: story, people, wine · Speech: someone speaks here
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, people), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 told | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 told | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 told | aux |
| 4 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 hastened | advcl |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 told | iobj |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 story | nmod:poss |
| 7 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 told | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 told | punct |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 hastened | nsubj |
| 10 | hastened | hasten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 get | mark |
| 12 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 hastened | xcomp |
| 13 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 get | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 bore | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 bore | cc |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 day | det |
| 17 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 bore | obl:unmarked |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 bore | nsubj |
| 19 | bore | bear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 hastened | conj |
| 20 | jarsful | jarsful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 bore | xcomp |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 house | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 widow | det |
| 23 | widow | widow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 house | nmod:poss |
| 24 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 23 widow | case |
| 25 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 jarsful | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 hastened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past · perfect | SON | SON's story | people | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient story=Topic | |||
| 2 | hasten | past | people | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | get | to-infinitive | people not said here | wine | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wine=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | bear | past | people | day | jarsful property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
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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