The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 22, sentence 46
So Juan spared the tree and started home with his precious net, but on the way he met the same friend who again persuaded him to drink tuba.
Who acts: Juan, same friend · What happens: spare, start, meet, persuade, drink · To what, where: tree, same friend, way, JUAN, tuba
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, same 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 spared | advmod |
| 2 | Juan | Juan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 spared | nsubj |
| 3 | spared | spare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 tree | det |
| 5 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 spared | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 started | cc |
| 7 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 spared | conj |
| 8 | home | home | ADV | _ | 7 started | advmod |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 net | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 net | nmod:poss |
| 11 | precious | precious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 net | amod |
| 12 | net | net | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 started | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 met | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 met | cc |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 way | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 way | det |
| 17 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 met | obl |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 met | nsubj |
| 19 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 spared | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 friend | det |
| 21 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 friend | amod |
| 22 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 met | obj |
| 23 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 persuaded | nsubj |
| 24 | again | again | ADV | _ | 25 persuaded | advmod |
| 25 | persuaded | persuade | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 friend | acl:relcl |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 persuaded | obj |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 drink | mark |
| 28 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 persuaded | xcomp |
| 29 | tuba | tuba | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 drink | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 spared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spare | past | Juan | the tree | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent tree=Asset | ||||
| 2 | start | past | Juan not said here | with JUAN's precious net; home property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with net=Subeventuality | ||||
| 3 | meet | past | JUAN | the same friend | the way | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Co-Agent | |||
| 4 | persuade | past | the same friend | JUAN | again | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Patient clause=Result | |||
| 5 | drink | to-infinitive | JUAN not said here | tuba | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tuba=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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