The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 23, sentence 133
Then they quarreled and were very angry and Lumawig said to the people, “Let us sit down and rest.”
Who acts: people, Lumawig, us · What happens: quarrel, be, say, let, sit down, rest · To what, where: people, us · 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, us), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 quarreled | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 quarreled | nsubj |
| 3 | quarreled | quarrel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 angry | cc |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 angry | cop |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 angry | advmod |
| 7 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 quarreled | conj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 said | cc |
| 9 | Lumawig | Lumawig | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 quarreled | conj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 people | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 people | det |
| 13 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 said | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 Let | punct |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 Let | punct |
| 16 | Let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 17 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 Let | obj |
| 18 | sit | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 Let | xcomp |
| 19 | down | down | ADP | _ | 18 sit | compound:prt |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 rest | cc |
| 21 | rest | rest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 sit | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 Let | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | quarrel | past | people | then | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is | past | people not said here | angry property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Lumawig | the people | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to people=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | let in a quote | infinitive | us | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | sit down in a quote | infinitive | us not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | rest in a quote | infinitive | us not said here | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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