The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 23, sentence 89
So Fukan took the three baskets back to Lumawig, and when he had filled them as he did the other two, he helped the girls carry them to the house.
Who acts: Fukan, Father, girls · What happens: take, fill, do, help, carry · To what, where: three baskets, Lumawig, men, other two, house
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 (Fukan, Father, girls), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 took | advmod |
| 2 | Fukan | Fukan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 baskets | det |
| 5 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 baskets | nummod |
| 6 | baskets | basket | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 took | obj |
| 7 | back | back | ADV | _ | 3 took | advmod |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 Lumawig | case |
| 9 | Lumawig | Lumawig | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 filled | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 filled | cc |
| 12 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 filled | advmod |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 filled | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 filled | aux |
| 15 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 took | conj |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 filled | obj |
| 17 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 19 did | mark |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 did | nsubj |
| 19 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 filled | advcl |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 two | det |
| 21 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 two | amod |
| 22 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 did | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 helped | punct |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 helped | nsubj |
| 25 | helped | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 girls | det |
| 27 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 carry | nsubj |
| 28 | carry | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 helped | ccomp |
| 29 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 carry | obj |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 house | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 house | det |
| 32 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 carry | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Fukan | the three baskets | Lumawig | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent basket=Theme to lumawig=Destination | |||
| 2 | fill | past · perfect | Father | men = man | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient | ||||
| 3 | do | past | Father | the other two | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent two=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | help | past | Father | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | carry | present | the girls | men = man | the house | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to house=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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