The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 22, sentence 70
He worked in the fields all day, and at night his wife always had a bowl of rice ready for his supper.
Who acts: Wang, wife · What happens: work, have · To what, where: bowl
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 (Wang, wife), 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 worked | nsubj |
| 2 | worked | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 fields | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 fields | det |
| 5 | fields | field | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 worked | obl |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 day | det |
| 7 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 worked | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 had | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 had | cc |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 night | case |
| 11 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 had | obl |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 wife | nmod:poss |
| 13 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 had | nsubj |
| 14 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 15 had | advmod |
| 15 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 worked | conj |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 bowl | det |
| 17 | bowl | bowl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 had | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 rice | case |
| 19 | rice | rice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 bowl | nmod |
| 20 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 had | xcomp |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 supper | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 supper | nmod:poss |
| 23 | supper | supper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 ready | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 worked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | work | past | Wang | day | in the fields | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in field=Theme | |||
| 2 | have | past | Wang's wife | a bowl of rice | night | always, ready property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bowl=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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