The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 23, sentence 107
When the people had built a fire of the trees he commanded them to bring ten kettles filled with water.
Who acts: people, LUMAWIG · What happens: build, command, bring, fill, fire · To what, where: fire, people, ten kettles, trees · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (people, LUMAWIG), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 built | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 people | det |
| 3 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 built | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 built | aux |
| 5 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 fire | det |
| 7 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 built | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 trees | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 trees | det |
| 10 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 fire | nmod |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 commanded | nsubj |
| 12 | commanded | command | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 trees | acl:relcl |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 commanded | obj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 bring | mark |
| 15 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 commanded | xcomp |
| 16 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 kettles | nummod |
| 17 | kettles | kettle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 bring | obj |
| 18 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 kettles | acl |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 water | case |
| 20 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 filled | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 built | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | build | past · perfect | the people | a fire of the trees | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Product | ||||
| 2 | command | past | LUMAWIG | people | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | bring not said to happen | to-infinitive | LUMAWIG not said here | ten kettles | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent kettle=Theme | ||||
| 4 | fill | participle | ten kettles not said here | with water | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with water=Instrument | ||||
| 5 | fire | the trees | nom fire «event transitive»: of=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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