The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 23, sentence 111
In answer to this Lumawig took a small basket of rice and passed it over five kettles and they were full.
Who acts: rice · What happens: take, pass, be · To what, where: small basket, answer, basket, five kettles
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), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 answer | case |
| 2 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 took | obl |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 Lumawig | case |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 Lumawig | det |
| 5 | Lumawig | Lumawig | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 answer | nmod |
| 6 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 basket | det |
| 8 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 basket | amod |
| 9 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 took | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 rice | case |
| 11 | rice | rice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 basket | nmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 passed | cc |
| 13 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 took | conj |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 passed | obj |
| 15 | over | over | ADP | _ | 17 kettles | case |
| 16 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 kettles | nummod |
| 17 | kettles | kettle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 passed | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 full | cc |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 full | nsubj |
| 20 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 full | cop |
| 21 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 passed | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | a small basket of rice | answer to this Lumawig | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent basket=Value in answer=Location | ||||
| 2 | pass | past | basket | five kettles | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme over kettle=Destination | ||||
| 3 | is | past | rice | full property | tree rules |
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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