The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 23, sentence 141
And as he set it floating on the water, he told it not to stop until it reached Tinglayen.
Who acts: LUMAWIG, coffin · What happens: set, float, tell, not stop, reach · To what, where: coffin, water, Tinglayen · 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 (LUMAWIG, coffin), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 told | cc |
| 2 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 set | mark |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 set | nsubj |
| 4 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 told | advcl |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 set | obj |
| 6 | floating | float | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 set | xcomp |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 water | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 water | det |
| 9 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 floating | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 set | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 told | nsubj |
| 12 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 told | obj |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 stop | advmod |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 stop | mark |
| 16 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 told | xcomp |
| 17 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 19 reached | mark |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 reached | nsubj |
| 19 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 stop | advcl |
| 20 | Tinglayen | Tinglayen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 reached | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set | past | LUMAWIG | coffin | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | float | gerund | LUMAWIG not said here | the water | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on water=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | past | LUMAWIG | coffin | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent it=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | not stop not said to happen | to-infinitive | LUMAWIG not said here | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | reach | past | coffin | Tinglayen | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent tinglayen=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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