The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 24, sentence 72
But they only laughed at him and insisted on having the statue, so he reached into his helmet and drew it forth.
Who acts: storms, father · What happens: laugh, insist, have, reach, draw · To what, where: statue, helmet
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 (storms, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 laughed | cc |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 laughed | nsubj |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 4 laughed | advmod |
| 4 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 him | case |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 laughed | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 insisted | cc |
| 8 | insisted | insist | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 laughed | conj |
| 9 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 10 having | mark |
| 10 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 insisted | advcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 statue | det |
| 12 | statue | statue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 having | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 reached | punct |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 reached | advmod |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 reached | nsubj |
| 16 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 laughed | conj |
| 17 | into | into | ADP | _ | 19 helmet | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 helmet | nmod:poss |
| 19 | helmet | helmet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 reached | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 drew | cc |
| 21 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 reached | conj |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 drew | obj |
| 23 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 21 drew | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 laughed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | laugh | past | storms = storm | at father | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | insist speech: other | participle | storms = storm not said here | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | have | gerund | storms = storm not said here | the statue | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent statue=Patient | ||||
| 4 | reach | past | father | father's helmet | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent into helmet=Path | ||||
| 5 | draw | past | father not said here | statue | forth property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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