The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 22, sentence 41
As soon as he awoke, Juan hastened home with the goat and told his people of the wonderful tree, but when he commanded the animal to shake its whiskers, no money fell out.
Who acts: friend, Juan, money · What happens: awake, hasten, tell, command, shake, fall out · To what, where: people, animal, whiskers · 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 (friend, 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 | As | as | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 awoke | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 awoke | mark |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 awoke | nsubj |
| 5 | awoke | awake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 hastened | punct |
| 7 | Juan | Juan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 hastened | nsubj |
| 8 | hastened | hasten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 awoke | conj |
| 9 | home | home | ADV | _ | 8 hastened | advmod |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 goat | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 goat | det |
| 12 | goat | goat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hastened | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 told | cc |
| 14 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 hastened | conj |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 people | nmod:poss |
| 16 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 told | iobj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 tree | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 tree | det |
| 19 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 tree | amod |
| 20 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 people | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 commanded | punct |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 commanded | cc |
| 23 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 25 commanded | advmod |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 commanded | nsubj |
| 25 | commanded | command | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 awoke | conj |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 animal | det |
| 27 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 commanded | obj |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 shake | mark |
| 29 | shake | shake | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 commanded | advcl |
| 30 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 whiskers | nmod:poss |
| 31 | whiskers | whisker | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 shake | obj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 fell | punct |
| 33 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 34 money | det |
| 34 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 fell | nsubj |
| 35 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 awoke | conj |
| 36 | out | out | ADP | _ | 35 fell | compound:prt |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 awoke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | awake | past | friend | soon property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | hasten | past | Juan | with the goat; home property | vn rush-53.2 «NP V PP.eventuality»: agent=Agent with goat=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | past | Juan not said here | JUAN's people of the wonderful tree | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent people=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | command | past | friend | the animal | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent animal=Theme | ||||
| 5 | shake | to-infinitive | friend not said here | animal's whiskers | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent whisker=Patient | ||||
| 6 | fall out | past | no money | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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