The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 20, sentence 98
Every day before breakfast he cuts off the heads of two or three men just to amuse himself.
Who acts: day · What happens: cut off, amuse · To what, where: heads, Rasalu
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 (day), 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 | Every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 day | det |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 cuts | nsubj |
| 3 | before | before | ADP | _ | 4 breakfast | case |
| 4 | breakfast | breakfast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 day | nmod |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 cuts | nsubj |
| 6 | cuts | cut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | off | off | ADP | _ | 6 cuts | compound:prt |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 heads | det |
| 9 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 cuts | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 men | case |
| 11 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 men | nummod |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 three | cc |
| 13 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 two | conj |
| 14 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 heads | nmod |
| 15 | just | just | ADV | _ | 17 amuse | advmod |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 amuse | mark |
| 17 | amuse | amuse | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 cuts | advcl |
| 18 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 17 amuse | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 cuts | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cut off | present | every day before breakfast | the heads of two men | Rasalu nsubj | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector head=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | amuse | to-infinitive | every day before breakfast not said here | Rasalu | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus himself=Experiencer |
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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