The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 24, sentence 3
So the widower opened it carefully and took Fukan up to the town, and then, as he had no wife of his own, he married her.
Who acts: widower · What happens: open, take up, have, marry · To what, where: wedge, Fukan, town, wife
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (widower), 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 | _ | 4 opened | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 widower | det |
| 3 | widower | widower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 opened | nsubj |
| 4 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 opened | obj |
| 6 | carefully | carefully | ADV | _ | 4 opened | advmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 took | cc |
| 8 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 opened | conj |
| 9 | Fukan | Fukan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 took | obj |
| 10 | up | up | ADV | _ | 8 took | advmod |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 town | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 town | det |
| 13 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 took | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 married | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 married | cc |
| 16 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 28 married | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 then | punct |
| 18 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 20 had | mark |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 had | nsubj |
| 20 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 married | advcl |
| 21 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 22 wife | det |
| 22 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 had | obj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 own | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 own | nmod:poss |
| 25 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 wife | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 had | punct |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 married | nsubj |
| 28 | married | marry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 opened | conj |
| 29 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 married | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 opened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | past | the widower | wedge | carefully property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme | |||
| 2 | take up | past | the widower not said here | Fukan | the town | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent fukan=Theme to town=Destination | |||
| 3 | have | past | widower | no wife of widower's own | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Patient | ||||
| 4 | marry | past | widower | Fukan | then | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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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