The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 17, sentence 136
The boatman with the elephant’s head brought the boat and ferried them over the lake as he had done before.
Who acts: boatman · What happens: bring, ferry, do · To what, where: boat, head, lake
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boatman), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 boatman | det |
| 2 | boatman | boatman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 brought | nsubj |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 head | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 elephant | det |
| 5 | elephant | elephant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 head | nmod:poss |
| 6 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 5 elephant | case |
| 7 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 boatman | nmod |
| 8 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 boat | det |
| 10 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 brought | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 ferried | cc |
| 12 | ferried | ferry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 brought | conj |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 ferried | obj |
| 14 | over | over | ADP | _ | 16 lake | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 lake | det |
| 16 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 ferried | obl |
| 17 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 20 done | mark |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 done | nsubj |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 done | aux |
| 20 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 ferried | advcl |
| 21 | before | before | ADV | _ | 20 done | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | past | the boatman with the elephant's head | the boat | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent boat=Theme | ||||
| 2 | ferry | past | the boatman with the elephant's head not said here | head | the lake | vn vehicle-51.4.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Theme over lake=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | do | past · perfect | boatman | before property | vn act-114-1 «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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