The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 2, sentence 7
It took him quite a long time to put these back again, but at last he got it into something like order, although he said it must not be used more than once a year, and then only for a very short time.
Who acts: It, Physician · What happens: take, put back, get, say, not use · To what, where: Physician, these, last · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, Physician), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 took | nsubj |
| 2 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 took | obj |
| 4 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 7 time | advmod |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 time | det |
| 6 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 time | amod |
| 7 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 took | obl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 put | mark |
| 9 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 time | acl |
| 10 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 9 put | obj |
| 11 | back | back | ADV | _ | 9 put | advmod |
| 12 | again | again | ADV | _ | 9 put | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 got | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 got | cc |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 last | case |
| 16 | last | last | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 got | obl |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 got | nsubj |
| 18 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 took | parataxis |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 got | obj |
| 20 | into | into | ADP | _ | 21 something | case |
| 21 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 18 got | obl |
| 22 | like | like | ADP | _ | 23 order | case |
| 23 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 something | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 said | punct |
| 25 | although | although | SCONJ | _ | 27 said | mark |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 said | nsubj |
| 27 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 got | conj |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 used | nsubj:pass |
| 29 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 used | aux |
| 30 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 32 used | advmod |
| 31 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 32 used | aux:pass |
| 32 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 said | ccomp |
| 33 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV | 32 used | advmod |
| 34 | than | than | ADP | _ | 33 more | fixed |
| 35 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 32 used | advmod |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 year | det |
| 37 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 once | obl:unmarked |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 time | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 time | cc |
| 40 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 46 time | advmod |
| 41 | only | only | ADV | _ | 46 time | advmod |
| 42 | for | for | ADP | _ | 46 time | case |
| 43 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 46 time | det |
| 44 | very | very | ADV | _ | 45 short | advmod |
| 45 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 time | amod |
| 46 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 used | obl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | It | Physician | time | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination | |||
| 2 | put back | to-infinitive | these | again | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent this=Goal | ||||
| 3 | get | past | Physician | last | last | into something like order | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent it=Theme at last=Asset | ||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | Physician | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | not use | must · passive | last | time | once property | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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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