The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 23, sentence 77
“We are gathering beans, but it takes a long time to get enough, for my sister wants to go bathing all the time.”
Who acts: We, it, sister · What happens: gather, take, get, want, go, bath · To what, where: beans, enough
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 (We, it, sister), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 gathering | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 gathering | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 gathering | aux |
| 4 | gathering | gather | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | beans | bean | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 gathering | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 takes | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 takes | cc |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 takes | nsubj |
| 9 | takes | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 gathering | parataxis |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 time | det |
| 11 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 time | amod |
| 12 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 takes | obj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 get | mark |
| 14 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 time | acl |
| 15 | enough | enough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 get | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 wants | punct |
| 17 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 20 wants | mark |
| 18 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 sister | nmod:poss |
| 19 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 wants | nsubj |
| 20 | wants | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 takes | conj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 go | mark |
| 22 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 wants | xcomp |
| 23 | bathing | bath | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 go | xcomp |
| 24 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 26 time | det:predet |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 time | det |
| 26 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 bathing | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 gathering | punct |
| 28 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 gathering | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gather in a quote | present · progressive | We | beans | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bean=Theme | ||||
| 2 | take in a quote | present | it | time | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | get in a quote | to-infinitive | enough | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer enough=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | want in a quote | present | my sister | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | go not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | my sister not said here | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | bath in a quote | gerund | my sister not said here | time | tree rules |
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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