The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 24, sentence 78
Then Balatama prepared to return home, promising that Bantugan would come in three months for the wedding.
Who acts: Balatama, Bantugan · What happens: prepare, return, promise, come in
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 (Balatama, Bantugan), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 prepared | advmod |
| 2 | Balatama | Balatama | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 prepared | nsubj |
| 3 | prepared | prepare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 return | mark |
| 5 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 prepared | xcomp |
| 6 | home | home | ADV | _ | 5 return | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 promising | punct |
| 8 | promising | promise | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 prepared | advcl |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 come | mark |
| 10 | Bantugan | Bantugan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 come | nsubj |
| 11 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 come | aux |
| 12 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 promising | xcomp |
| 13 | in | in | ADV | _ | 12 come | advmod |
| 14 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 months | nummod |
| 15 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 come | obl:unmarked |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 wedding | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 wedding | det |
| 18 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 come | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 prepared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | prepare | past | Balatama | then | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | return not said to happen | to-infinitive | Balatama not said here | home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | promise speech: promise | gerund | Balatama not said here | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | come in not said to happen | would | Bantugan | month | for the wedding | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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