The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 23, sentence 135
The brother-in-law jumped up to get a drink first, but Lumawig held him back, and said he must be the last to drink.
Who acts: brother, Lumawig · What happens: jump up, get, hold back, say, be, drink · To what, where: drink, Feast · 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 (brother, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 brother | det |
| 2 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 jumped | nsubj |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 law | punct |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 law | case |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 in | punct |
| 6 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 brother | conj |
| 7 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 jumped | compound:prt |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 get | mark |
| 10 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 jumped | advcl |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 drink | det |
| 12 | drink | drink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 get | obj |
| 13 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 10 get | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 held | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 held | cc |
| 16 | Lumawig | Lumawig | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 held | nsubj |
| 17 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 jumped | conj |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 held | obj |
| 19 | back | back | ADV | _ | 17 held | advmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 said | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 said | cc |
| 22 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 jumped | parataxis |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 last | nsubj |
| 24 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 last | aux |
| 25 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 27 last | cop |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 last | det |
| 27 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 said | ccomp |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 drink | mark |
| 29 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 last | xcomp |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 jumped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | jump up | past | the brother and law | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | get | to-infinitive | the brother and law not said here | a drink | first property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer drink=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | hold back | past | Lumawig | Feast | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | is | must | LUMAWIG | last property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | drink | to-infinitive | LUMAWIG not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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