The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 22, sentence 37
Juan commanded it to shake its whiskers, and when the money began to drop he was so delighted that he took the animal and started home to show his treasure to his mother.
Who acts: Juan, money · What happens: command, shake, begin, drop, be, take · To what, where: bark, whiskers, animal, treasure, mother · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Juan, money), 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 | Juan | Juan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 commanded | nsubj |
| 2 | commanded | command | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 commanded | obj |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 shake | mark |
| 5 | shake | shake | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 commanded | xcomp |
| 6 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 whiskers | nmod:poss |
| 7 | whiskers | whisker | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 shake | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 began | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 began | cc |
| 10 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 began | advmod |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 money | det |
| 12 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 began | nsubj |
| 13 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 commanded | conj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 drop | mark |
| 15 | drop | drop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 began | xcomp |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 delighted | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 delighted | cop |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 delighted | advmod |
| 19 | delighted | delighted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 drop | ccomp |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 took | mark |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 took | nsubj |
| 22 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 delighted | advcl |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 animal | det |
| 24 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 took | obj |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 started | cc |
| 26 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 took | conj |
| 27 | home | home | ADV | _ | 26 started | advmod |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 show | mark |
| 29 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 started | advcl |
| 30 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 treasure | nmod:poss |
| 31 | treasure | treasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 show | obj |
| 32 | to | to | ADP | _ | 34 mother | case |
| 33 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 mother | nmod:poss |
| 34 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 show | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 commanded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | command | past | Juan | bark | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent it=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | shake not said to happen | to-infinitive | Juan not said here | bark's whiskers | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent whisker=Patient | ||||
| 3 | begin | past | the money | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | drop | to-infinitive | the money not said here | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | is | past | JUAN | delighted property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | take | past | JUAN | the animal | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument animal=Destination | ||||
| 7 | start | past | JUAN not said here | home property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 8 | show | to-infinitive | JUAN not said here | JUAN's treasure | JUAN's mother | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent treasure=Topic to mother=Recipient | |||
| 9 | treasure | JUAN | nom treasure «possession transitive»: poss=agent |
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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