The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 22, sentence 73
One morning, as he was setting off to his work, his wife sent Han Chung, his son, running after him to ask him to bring home some firewood.
Who acts: Wang, wife · What happens: set off, send, run, ask, bring, work · To what, where: work, Han, Wang, firewood
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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 morning | nummod |
| 2 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sent | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 setting | punct |
| 4 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 setting | mark |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 setting | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 setting | aux |
| 7 | setting | set | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 morning | conj |
| 8 | off | off | ADP | _ | 7 setting | compound:prt |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 work | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 work | nmod:poss |
| 11 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 setting | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 morning | punct |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 wife | nmod:poss |
| 14 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sent | nsubj |
| 15 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | Han | Han | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 sent | obj |
| 17 | Chung | Chung | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Han | flat |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 son | punct |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 son | nmod:poss |
| 20 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 Han | appos |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 running | punct |
| 22 | running | run | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 sent | advcl |
| 23 | after | after | ADP | _ | 24 him | case |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 running | obl |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 ask | mark |
| 26 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 running | advcl |
| 27 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 ask | obj |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 bring | mark |
| 29 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 ask | xcomp |
| 30 | home | home | ADV | _ | 29 bring | advmod |
| 31 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 32 firewood | det |
| 32 | firewood | firewood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 bring | obj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set off | past · progressive | Wang | Wang's work | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to work=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | send | past | Wang's wife | Han | morning | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent han=Theme | |||
| 3 | run | gerund | Wang's wife not said here | after Wang | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | to-infinitive | Wang's wife not said here | Wang | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | bring not said to happen | to-infinitive | Wang's wife not said here | some firewood | home property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent firewood=Theme | |||
| 6 | work | Wang | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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