The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 20, sentence 58
There he sat down to rest awhile by a well, where the women were drawing water in earthern pitchers.
Who acts: child, women · What happens: sit down, rest, draw · To what, where: water, earthern pitchers
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (child, women), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 sat | expl |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sat | nsubj |
| 3 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | down | down | ADP | _ | 3 sat | compound:prt |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 rest | mark |
| 6 | rest | rest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 sat | advcl |
| 7 | awhile | awhile | ADV | _ | 6 rest | advmod |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 well | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 well | det |
| 10 | well | well | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 rest | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 drawing | punct |
| 12 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 16 drawing | advmod |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 women | det |
| 14 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 drawing | nsubj |
| 15 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 drawing | aux |
| 16 | drawing | draw | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 sat | advcl |
| 17 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 drawing | obj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 pitchers | case |
| 19 | earthern | earthern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 pitchers | amod |
| 20 | pitchers | pitcher | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 drawing | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit down | past | child | there | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | rest | to-infinitive | child not said here | by a well; awhile property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by well=Location | ||||
| 3 | draw | past · progressive | the women | water | earthern pitchers | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent water=Theme in pitcher=Destination |
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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