The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 23, sentence 140
He made a coffin of wood and placed her in it with a dog at her feet and a cock at her head.
Who acts: LUMAWIG · What happens: make, place · To what, where: coffin, push, wood
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), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 made | nsubj |
| 2 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 coffin | det |
| 4 | coffin | coffin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 made | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 wood | case |
| 6 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 coffin | nmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 placed | cc |
| 8 | placed | place | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 made | conj |
| 9 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 placed | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 it | case |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 placed | obl |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 dog | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 dog | det |
| 14 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 placed | obl |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 feet | case |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 feet | nmod:poss |
| 17 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 placed | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 cock | cc |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 cock | det |
| 20 | cock | cock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 feet | conj |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 23 head | case |
| 22 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 head | nmod:poss |
| 23 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 cock | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | LUMAWIG | a coffin of wood | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coffin=Product | ||||
| 2 | place | past | LUMAWIG not said here | push | wood | with a dog; at dog's feet and a cock at dog's head | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme in it=Destination |
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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