The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 23, sentence 139
Some time after this Lumawig decided to go back to the sky to live, but before he went he took care that his wife should have a home.
Who acts: Lumawig, wife · What happens: decide, go back, live, go, take, have · To what, where: care, home
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, wife), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 time | det |
| 2 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 decided | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | after | after | ADP | _ | 4 this | case |
| 4 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 time | nmod |
| 5 | Lumawig | Lumawig | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 decided | nsubj |
| 6 | decided | decide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 go | mark |
| 8 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 decided | xcomp |
| 9 | back | back | ADV | _ | 8 go | advmod |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 sky | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 sky | det |
| 12 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 go | obl |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 live | mark |
| 14 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 go | advcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 went | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 went | cc |
| 17 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 19 went | mark |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 went | nsubj |
| 19 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 decided | conj |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 took | nsubj |
| 21 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 went | conj |
| 22 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 took | obj |
| 23 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 27 have | mark |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 wife | nmod:poss |
| 25 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 have | nsubj |
| 26 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 have | aux |
| 27 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 took | advcl |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 home | det |
| 29 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 have | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 decided | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | decide | past | Lumawig | time | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | go back not said to happen | to-infinitive | Lumawig not said here | to the sky result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to sky=Result | ||||
| 3 | live | to-infinitive | Lumawig not said here | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | go | past | LUMAWIG | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | take | past | LUMAWIG | care | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme | ||||
| 6 | have | should | LUMAWIG's wife | a home | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent home=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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