The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 23, sentence 130
So they consulted the omen, but it was not favorable, and they were starting home when the brother-in-law asked Lumawig to create some water, as the people were hot and thirsty.
Who acts: tribes, omen, brother, people · What happens: consult, not be, start, ask, create, be · To what, where: omen, Lumawig, water
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 (tribes, omen, brother, people), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 consulted | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 consulted | nsubj |
| 3 | consulted | consult | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 omen | det |
| 5 | omen | omen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 consulted | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 favorable | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 favorable | cc |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 favorable | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 favorable | cop |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 favorable | advmod |
| 11 | favorable | favorable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 consulted | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 starting | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 starting | cc |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 starting | nsubj |
| 15 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 starting | aux |
| 16 | starting | start | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 consulted | advcl |
| 17 | home | home | ADV | _ | 16 starting | advmod |
| 18 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 25 asked | advmod |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 brother | det |
| 20 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 asked | nsubj |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 law | punct |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 law | case |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 in | punct |
| 24 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 brother | conj |
| 25 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 starting | advcl |
| 26 | Lumawig | Lumawig | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 asked | iobj |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 create | mark |
| 28 | create | create | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 asked | xcomp |
| 29 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 30 water | det |
| 30 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 create | obj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 hot | punct |
| 32 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 36 hot | mark |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 people | det |
| 34 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 hot | nsubj |
| 35 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 hot | cop |
| 36 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 asked | parataxis |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 thirsty | cc |
| 38 | thirsty | thirsty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 hot | conj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 consulted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | consult | past | tribes = tribe | the omen | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent omen=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not is | past | omen | favorable property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | start | past · progressive | tribes = tribe | home property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | past | the brother and law | Lumawig | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent lumawig=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | create not said to happen | to-infinitive | the brother and law not said here | some water | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Result | ||||
| 6 | is | past | the people | hot property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | be | the people not said here | 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/23/130/