The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 23, sentence 106
As soon as they arrived he sent out for some tree trunks, but the trees that the people brought in were so small that Lumawig himself went to the forest and cut two large pine trees which he hurled to Lanao.
Who acts: rice, LUMAWIG, people, trees, two large pine trees · What happens: arrive, send out, bring in, be, go, cut · To what, where: trees, forest, two large pine trees, Lanao
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rice, LUMAWIG, people, trees), 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 | As | as | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 sent | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 arrived | mark |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 arrived | nsubj |
| 5 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 sent | advcl |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 sent | nsubj |
| 7 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | out | out | ADP | _ | 7 sent | compound:prt |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 trunks | case |
| 10 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 trunks | det |
| 11 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 trunks | compound |
| 12 | trunks | trunk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 sent | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 small | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 small | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 trees | det |
| 16 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 small | nsubj |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 brought | obj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 people | det |
| 19 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 brought | nsubj |
| 20 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 trees | acl:relcl |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 brought | obl |
| 22 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 small | cop |
| 23 | so | so | ADV | _ | 24 small | advmod |
| 24 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 sent | conj |
| 25 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 28 went | mark |
| 26 | Lumawig | Lumawig | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 went | nsubj |
| 27 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 26 Lumawig | nmod:unmarked |
| 28 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 small | advcl |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 forest | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 forest | det |
| 31 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 went | obl |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 cut | cc |
| 33 | cut | cut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 went | conj |
| 34 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 37 trees | nummod |
| 35 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 trees | amod |
| 36 | pine | pine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 trees | compound |
| 37 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 cut | obj |
| 38 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 40 hurled | nsubj |
| 39 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 hurled | nsubj |
| 40 | hurled | hurl | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 trees | acl:relcl |
| 41 | to | to | ADP | _ | 42 Lanao | case |
| 42 | Lanao | Lanao | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 hurled | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrive | past | rice | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | send out | past | LUMAWIG | for some tree trunks; soon property | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | bring in | past | the people | the trees | vn earn-54.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme that=Asset | ||||
| 4 | is | past | the trees | small property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | go | past | Lumawig LUMAWIG | the forest | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to forest=Initial_Location | ||||
| 6 | cut | past | Lumawig LUMAWIG not said here | two large pine trees | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset tree=Product | ||||
| 7 | hurl | past | two large pine trees | Lanao | LUMAWIG nsubj | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent to lanao=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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