The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 16, sentence 82
Placing him on the kitchen block, he lifted the chopper, and gave him a violent blow on the head.
Who acts: cook · What happens: place, lift, give · To what, where: cook, kitchen block, chopper, violent blow, head
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 (cook), 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 | Placing | place | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 lifted | advcl |
| 2 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Placing | obj |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 block | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 block | det |
| 5 | kitchen | kitchen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 block | compound |
| 6 | block | block | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Placing | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Placing | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 lifted | nsubj |
| 9 | lifted | lift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 chopper | det |
| 11 | chopper | chopper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lifted | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 gave | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 gave | cc |
| 14 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 lifted | conj |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 gave | iobj |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 blow | det |
| 17 | violent | violent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 blow | amod |
| 18 | blow | blow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 gave | obj |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 head | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 head | det |
| 21 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 blow | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 lifted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | place | gerund | cook not said here | cook | the kitchen block | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme on block=Destination | |||
| 2 | lift | past | cook | the chopper | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chopper=Theme | ||||
| 3 | give | past | cook not said here | a violent blow | cook | the head | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent he=Recipient blow=Theme on head=Asset |
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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