The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 23, sentence 96
Next Lumawig asked how many pigs they had, and the father replied that they had one with some little ones.
Who acts: Next Lumawig, pigs, father · What happens: ask, have, reply · To what, where: many pigs, one · 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 (Next Lumawig, pigs, 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 | Next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Lumawig | amod |
| 2 | Lumawig | Lumawig | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 asked | nsubj |
| 3 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 many | advmod |
| 5 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 pigs | amod |
| 6 | pigs | pig | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 asked | obj |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 had | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 pigs | acl:relcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 replied | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 replied | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 father | det |
| 12 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 replied | nsubj |
| 13 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 asked | parataxis |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 had | mark |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 had | nsubj |
| 16 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 replied | ccomp |
| 17 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 had | obj |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 ones | case |
| 19 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 21 ones | det |
| 20 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 ones | amod |
| 21 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 one | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | Next Lumawig | many pigs | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent pig=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | have | past | pigs = pig | many pigs not said here | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pig=Patient | ||||
| 3 | reply speech: assert | past | the father | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | have | past | pigs = pig | one | with some little ones | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient |
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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