The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 23, sentence 74
One day when Lumawig, the Great Spirit, looked down from his place in the sky, he saw two sisters gathering beans, and he decided to visit them.
Who acts: Lumawig, two sisters · What happens: look down, see, gather, decide, visit · To what, where: two sisters, beans
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, two sisters), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 looked | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 looked | advmod |
| 4 | Lumawig | Lumawig | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 looked | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Spirit | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Spirit | det |
| 7 | Great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Spirit | amod |
| 8 | Spirit | Spirit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Lumawig | appos |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Lumawig | punct |
| 10 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | down | down | ADV | _ | 10 looked | advmod |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 place | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 place | nmod:poss |
| 14 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 looked | obl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 sky | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 sky | det |
| 17 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 place | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 saw | punct |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 saw | nsubj |
| 20 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 looked | parataxis |
| 21 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 sisters | nummod |
| 22 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 saw | obj |
| 23 | gathering | gather | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 sisters | acl |
| 24 | beans | bean | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 gathering | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 decided | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 decided | cc |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 decided | nsubj |
| 28 | decided | decide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 saw | conj |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 visit | mark |
| 30 | visit | visit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 decided | xcomp |
| 31 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 visit | obj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look down | past | Lumawig | day | from LUMAWIG's place in the sky; down property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent from place=Theme | |||
| 2 | see | past | LUMAWIG | two sisters | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sister=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | gather | gerund | two sisters not said here | beans | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bean=Theme | ||||
| 4 | decide | past | LUMAWIG | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | visit not said to happen | to-infinitive | LUMAWIG not said here | beans = bean | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Co-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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