The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 22, sentence 44
He went back to the tree and threatened to cut it down for lying to him, but the tree said:
Who acts: JUAN, tree · What happens: go back, threaten, cut down, lie, say · To what, where: juice, JUAN · 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, tree), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | back | back | ADV | _ | 2 went | advmod |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 tree | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 tree | det |
| 6 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 threatened | cc |
| 8 | threatened | threaten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 went | conj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 cut | mark |
| 10 | cut | cut | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 threatened | xcomp |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 cut | obj |
| 12 | down | down | ADP | _ | 10 cut | compound:prt |
| 13 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 14 lying | mark |
| 14 | lying | lie | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 cut | advcl |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 him | case |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 lying | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 said | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 said | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 tree | det |
| 20 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 said | nsubj |
| 21 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | parataxis |
| 22 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 21 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go back | past | JUAN | to the tree result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to tree=Result | ||||
| 2 | threaten | participle | JUAN not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | cut down not said to happen | to-infinitive | JUAN not said here | juice | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product | ||||
| 4 | lie | gerund | JUAN not said here | JUAN | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | past | the tree | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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