The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 23, sentence 136
So they all drank, and when they had finished the brother-in-law stepped up, but Lumawig gave him a push which sent him into the rock, and water came from his body.
Who acts: brother, Lumawig, push, water · What happens: drink, finish, step up, give, send, come · To what, where: law, push, Feast, LUMAWIG, rock, body
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, push, water), 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 | _ | 4 drank | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 drank | nsubj |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 drank | advmod |
| 4 | drank | drink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 finished | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 finished | cc |
| 7 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 finished | advmod |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 finished | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 finished | aux |
| 10 | finished | finish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 drank | advcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 law | det |
| 12 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 law | nsubj |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 law | punct |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 law | case |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 in | punct |
| 16 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 finished | obj |
| 17 | stepped | step | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 law | acl |
| 18 | up | up | ADP | _ | 17 stepped | compound:prt |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 gave | punct |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 gave | cc |
| 21 | Lumawig | Lumawig | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 gave | nsubj |
| 22 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 drank | conj |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 gave | iobj |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 push | det |
| 25 | push | push | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 gave | obj |
| 26 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 sent | nsubj |
| 27 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 push | acl:relcl |
| 28 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 sent | obj |
| 29 | into | into | ADP | _ | 31 rock | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 rock | det |
| 31 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 sent | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 came | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 came | cc |
| 34 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 came | nsubj |
| 35 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 drank | conj |
| 36 | from | from | ADP | _ | 38 body | case |
| 37 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 body | nmod:poss |
| 38 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 came | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 drank | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drink | past | brother | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | finish | past · perfect | brother | the law brother | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality law=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | step up | participle | the law brother not said here | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | give | past | Lumawig | a push | Feast | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient push=Theme | |||
| 5 | send | past | a push | LUMAWIG | the rock | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 6 | come | past | water | LUMAWIG's body | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from body=Initial_Location |
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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