The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 22, sentence 48
Once more Juan went to his tree, this time determined to cut it down.
Who acts: Juan · What happens: go, determine, cut down · To what, where: tree, time, net
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), 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 | Once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 4 went | advmod |
| 2 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 4 went | advmod |
| 3 | Juan | Juan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 tree | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 tree | nmod:poss |
| 7 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 time | punct |
| 9 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 time | det |
| 10 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 tree | conj |
| 11 | determined | determine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 time | acl |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 cut | mark |
| 13 | cut | cut | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 determined | xcomp |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 cut | obj |
| 15 | down | down | ADP | _ | 13 cut | compound:prt |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Juan | JUAN's tree and this time | once property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to tree=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | determine | participle | this time not said here | vn discover-84 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | cut down | to-infinitive | net | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product |
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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