The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 23, sentence 91
The father brought him a cocoanut shell full, and before drinking Lumawig looked at it and said:
Who acts: father · What happens: bring, drink, look, say · To what, where: cocoanut shell, LUMAWIG · 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 (father), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 father | det |
| 2 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 brought | nsubj |
| 3 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 brought | obj |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 shell | det |
| 6 | cocoanut | cocoanut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 shell | compound |
| 7 | shell | shell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 brought | obj |
| 8 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 shell | amod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 looked | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 looked | cc |
| 11 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 12 drinking | mark |
| 12 | drinking | drink | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 looked | advcl |
| 13 | Lumawig | Lumawig | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 drinking | obj |
| 14 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 brought | parataxis |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 it | case |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 looked | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 said | cc |
| 18 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 looked | conj |
| 19 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | past | the father | a cocoanut shell | LUMAWIG | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination shell=Theme | |||
| 2 | drink | gerund | Lumawig | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lumawig=Patient | |||||
| 3 | look | past | at shell | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at it=Theme | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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