The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 22, sentence 57
Juan ordered the stick to stop, and then he compelled the man to lead the goat and to carry the net and the jar and spoons to his home.
Who acts: Juan, stick · What happens: order, stop, compel, lead, carry · To what, where: stick, man, goat, net, home
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, stick), 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 | Juan | Juan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 ordered | nsubj |
| 2 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 stick | det |
| 4 | stick | stick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 ordered | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 stop | mark |
| 6 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 ordered | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 compelled | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 compelled | cc |
| 9 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 compelled | advmod |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 compelled | nsubj |
| 11 | compelled | compel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 ordered | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 man | det |
| 13 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 compelled | obj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 lead | mark |
| 15 | lead | lead | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 compelled | ccomp |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 goat | det |
| 17 | goat | goat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 lead | obj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 carry | cc |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 carry | mark |
| 20 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 lead | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 net | det |
| 22 | net | net | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 carry | obj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 jar | cc |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 jar | det |
| 25 | jar | jar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 net | conj |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 spoons | cc |
| 27 | spoons | spoon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 net | conj |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 home | case |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 home | nmod:poss |
| 30 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 carry | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 ordered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | order | past | Juan | the stick | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent stick=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | stop not said to happen | to-infinitive | the stick not said here | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | compel | past | JUAN | the man | then | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent man=Patient clause=Result | |||
| 4 | lead | to-infinitive | JUAN not said here | the goat | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goat=Theme | ||||
| 5 | carry | to-infinitive | JUAN not said here | the net and the jar and spoons | JUAN's home | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent net=Theme to home=Destination |
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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