The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 22, sentence 40
This sent him to sleep, and then the friend substituted another goat for the magic one.
Who acts: This, friend · What happens: send, sleep, substitute · To what, where: JUAN, goat
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 (This, friend), 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 | 2 sent | nsubj |
| 2 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 sent | obj |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 sleep | mark |
| 5 | sleep | sleep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 sent | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 substituted | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 substituted | cc |
| 8 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 substituted | advmod |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 friend | det |
| 10 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 substituted | nsubj |
| 11 | substituted | substitute | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 sent | conj |
| 12 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 goat | det |
| 13 | goat | goat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 substituted | obj |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 one | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 one | det |
| 16 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 one | amod |
| 17 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 substituted | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | This | JUAN | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 2 | sleep | to-infinitive | This not said here | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | substitute | past | the friend | another goat | then | for the magic one | vn substitute-13.6.2 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Theme goat=Location |
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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