The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 17, sentence 98
He then again took them up with his trunk, set them ashore, and immediately vanished with his boat.
Who acts: boatman · What happens: take up, set, vanish · To what, where: head
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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 took | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 took | advmod |
| 3 | again | again | ADV | _ | 4 took | advmod |
| 4 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 took | obj |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 took | compound:prt |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 trunk | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 trunk | nmod:poss |
| 9 | trunk | trunk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 set | punct |
| 11 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 took | advcl |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 set | obj |
| 13 | ashore | ashore | ADV | _ | 11 set | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 vanished | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 vanished | cc |
| 16 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 17 vanished | advmod |
| 17 | vanished | vanish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 took | conj |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 boat | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 boat | nmod:poss |
| 20 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 vanished | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take up | past | boatman | head | then; again | with boatman's trunk | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||
| 2 | set | infinitive | boatman not said here | head | ashore property | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient they=Result | |||
| 3 | vanish | past | boatman not said here | with boatman's boat; immediately property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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