The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 22, sentence 29

One day his mother, who was almost discouraged with him, gave him a bolo[4] and sent him to the forest, for she thought he could at least cut firewood.

Who acts: mother, One day, family · What happens: be, give, send, think, cut · To what, where: bolo, JUAN, forest

This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, One day, family), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 day	nummod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 gave	nsubj
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 mother	nmod:poss
4	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 day	nmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 discouraged	punct
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 discouraged	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 discouraged	cop
8	almost	almost	ADV	_	9 discouraged	advmod
9	discouraged	discouraged	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 mother	acl:relcl
10	with	with	ADP	_	11 him	case
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 discouraged	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 day	punct
13	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 gave	iobj
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 bolo	det
16	bolo	bolo	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 gave	obj
17	[	[	PUNCT	_	18 4	punct
18	4	4	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	16 bolo	appos
19	]	]	PUNCT	_	18 4	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 sent	cc
21	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 gave	conj
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 sent	obj
23	to	to	ADP	_	25 forest	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 forest	det
25	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 sent	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 thought	punct
27	for	for	SCONJ	_	29 thought	mark
28	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 thought	nsubj
29	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 sent	conj
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 could	nsubj
31	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 thought	ccomp
32	at	at	ADP	_	33 least	case
33	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	35 firewood	nmod
34	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	35 firewood	amod
35	firewood	firewood	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 could	nsubj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	JUAN's mother				with JUAN; almost, discouraged property	tree rules
2	give	past	One day JUAN's mother	a bolo	JUAN			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient bolo=Theme
3	send	past	One day JUAN's mother not said here	JUAN		the forest		vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to forest=Destination
4	think speech: other	past	family					vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	cut	participle						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=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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🌲 The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 22, sentence 29

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The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 22, sentence 29