The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 23, sentence 79
“Hand me a single pod of the beans.”
Who acts: you · What happens: hand · To what, where: single pod, Lumawig
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 (you), 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 | _ | 2 Hand | punct |
| 2 | Hand | hand | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 Hand | obj |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 pod | det |
| 5 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 pod | amod |
| 6 | pod | pod | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Hand | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 beans | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 beans | det |
| 9 | beans | bean | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 pod | nmod |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Hand | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Hand | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hand in a quote | imperative | you not said here | a single pod of the beans | Lumawig | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination pod=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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