The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 16, sentence 136
To-morrow morning, as soon as you are up, take a pick-axe and dig in the late sultan’s private room.
Who acts: you · What happens: be up, take, dig · To what, where: pick axe, private room
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 | To | to | ADP | _ | 4 morning | case |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 To | punct |
| 3 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 morning | compound |
| 4 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 take | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 morning | punct |
| 6 | as | as | ADV | _ | 7 soon | advmod |
| 7 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 take | advmod |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 are | mark |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 are | nsubj |
| 10 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 take | advcl |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 are | compound:prt |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 are | punct |
| 13 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 axe | det |
| 15 | pick | pick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 axe | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 pick | punct |
| 17 | axe | axe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 take | obj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 dig | cc |
| 19 | dig | dig | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 take | conj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 room | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 sultan | det |
| 22 | late | late | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 sultan | amod |
| 23 | sultan | sultan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 room | nmod:poss |
| 24 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 23 sultan | case |
| 25 | private | private | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 room | amod |
| 26 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 dig | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be up | present | you | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | take | imperative | you not said here | a pick axe | morning | soon property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent axe=Theme | ||
| 3 | dig | present | you not said here | the late sultan's private room | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent in room=Location |
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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