The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 25, sentence 38
However, he had promised to start that day, so he took up his stick and set off.
Who acts: sun · What happens: promise, start, take up, set off · To what, where: stick
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sun), 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 | However | however | ADV | _ | 5 promised | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 However | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 promised | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 promised | aux |
| 5 | promised | promise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 start | mark |
| 7 | start | start | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 promised | xcomp |
| 8 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 day | det |
| 9 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 start | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 took | punct |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 took | advmod |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 took | nsubj |
| 13 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 promised | parataxis |
| 14 | up | up | ADP | _ | 13 took | compound:prt |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 stick | nmod:poss |
| 16 | stick | stick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 took | obj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 set | cc |
| 18 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 took | conj |
| 19 | off | off | ADP | _ | 18 set | compound:prt |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 promised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | promise speech: promise | past · perfect | sun | however property | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | start not said to happen | to-infinitive | sun not said here | day | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | take up | past | sun | sun's stick | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stick=Theme | ||||
| 4 | set off | infinitive | sun not said here | 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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