The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 22, sentence 58
There Juan commanded the goat, and it shook its whiskers until his mother and brothers had all the silver they could carry.
Who acts: Juan, stick, mother, whiskers · What happens: command, shake, have, carry · To what, where: goat, whiskers, silver · 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, stick, mother, whiskers), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 commanded | expl |
| 2 | Juan | Juan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 commanded | nsubj |
| 3 | commanded | command | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 goat | det |
| 5 | goat | goat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 commanded | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 shook | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 shook | cc |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 shook | nsubj |
| 9 | shook | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 commanded | conj |
| 10 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 whiskers | nmod:poss |
| 11 | whiskers | whisker | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 shook | obj |
| 12 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 17 had | mark |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 mother | nmod:poss |
| 14 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 had | nsubj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 brothers | cc |
| 16 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 mother | conj |
| 17 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 shook | advcl |
| 18 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 silver | det:predet |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 silver | det |
| 20 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 had | obj |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 carry | nsubj |
| 22 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 carry | aux |
| 23 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 silver | acl:relcl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 commanded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | command | past | Juan | the goat | there | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent goat=Theme | |||
| 2 | shake | past | stick | stick's whiskers | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent whisker=Patient | ||||
| 3 | have | past | JUAN's mother and brothers | all silver | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent silver=Patient | ||||
| 4 | carry | could | whiskers = whisker | all silver not said here | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent silver=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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