The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 21, sentence 36
As soon as I’ve eaten my bread I’ll go forth and cut off his head!”
Who acts: I · What happens: eat, go, cut off · To what, where: I, head
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | As | as | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 eaten | mark |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 eaten | nsubj |
| 5 | ’ve | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 eaten | aux:pass |
| 6 | eaten | eat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 soon | advcl |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 bread | nmod:poss |
| 8 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 eaten | obj |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 go | nsubj |
| 10 | ’ll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 go | aux |
| 11 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 eaten | ccomp |
| 12 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 11 go | advmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 cut | cc |
| 14 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 eaten | conj |
| 15 | off | off | ADP | _ | 14 cut | compound:prt |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 head | nmod:poss |
| 17 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 cut | obj |
| 18 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 eaten | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 eaten | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | present · passive | I | my bread obj | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go | future | I | forth property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | cut off | participle | King's head | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector head=Eventuality |
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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