The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 22, sentence 35
This pleased Juan wonderfully, both because he was curious to see the goat, and because he would not have to chop the wood.
Who acts: pleased Juan, JUAN · What happens: be, see, not have, chop · To what, where: goat, wood
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 (pleased Juan, JUAN), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 Juan | nsubj |
| 2 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Juan | amod |
| 3 | Juan | Juan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 curious | nsubj |
| 4 | wonderfully | wonderfully | ADV | _ | 6 both | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 wonderfully | punct |
| 6 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 Juan | conj |
| 7 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 10 curious | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 curious | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 curious | cop |
| 10 | curious | curious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 see | mark |
| 12 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 curious | advcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 goat | det |
| 14 | goat | goat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 see | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 have | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 have | cc |
| 17 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 21 have | mark |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 have | nsubj |
| 19 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 have | aux |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 have | advmod |
| 21 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 curious | parataxis |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 chop | mark |
| 23 | chop | chop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 have | xcomp |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 wood | det |
| 25 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 chop | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 curious | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | pleased Juan This | JUAN nsubj; curious property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see | to-infinitive | pleased Juan This not said here | the goat | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer goat=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | not have | would | JUAN | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | chop | to-infinitive | JUAN not said here | the wood | vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wood=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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