The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 23, sentence 127
Finally Lumawig reached down and picked up the pig and carried it to the place where the others were cooking.
Who acts: Lumawig, others · What happens: reach down, pick up, carry, cook · To what, where: pig, course, place
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 (Lumawig, others), 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 | Finally | finally | ADV | _ | 3 reached | advmod |
| 2 | Lumawig | Lumawig | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 reached | nsubj |
| 3 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | down | down | ADV | _ | 3 reached | advmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 picked | cc |
| 6 | picked | pick | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 reached | conj |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 picked | compound:prt |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 pig | det |
| 9 | pig | pig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 picked | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 carried | cc |
| 11 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 reached | conj |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 carried | obj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 place | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 place | det |
| 15 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 carried | obl |
| 16 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 20 cooking | advmod |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 others | det |
| 18 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 cooking | nsubj |
| 19 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 cooking | aux |
| 20 | cooking | cook | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 place | acl:relcl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 reached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach down | past | Lumawig | down, finally property | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | pick up | participle | Lumawig not said here | the pig | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pig=Topic | ||||
| 3 | carry | past | Lumawig not said here | course | the place | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to place=Destination | |||
| 4 | cook | past · progressive | the others | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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