The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 25, sentence 58
It was still very hot, and he grew so thirsty that he went to a little hut by the roadside, and asked an old woman who was sitting in the doorway to give him a drink.
Who acts: way, Pei, old woman · What happens: be, grow, go, ask, sit, give · To what, where: little hut, old woman, doorway, drink, Pei
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 (way, Pei, old woman), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 hot | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 hot | cop |
| 3 | still | still | ADV | _ | 5 hot | advmod |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 hot | advmod |
| 5 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 grew | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 grew | cc |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 grew | nsubj |
| 9 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 hot | conj |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 thirsty | advmod |
| 11 | thirsty | thirsty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 grew | xcomp |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 went | mark |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 went | nsubj |
| 14 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 thirsty | advcl |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 hut | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 hut | det |
| 17 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 hut | amod |
| 18 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 went | obl |
| 19 | by | by | ADP | _ | 21 roadside | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 roadside | det |
| 21 | roadside | roadside | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 hut | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 asked | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 asked | cc |
| 24 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 grew | conj |
| 25 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 woman | det |
| 26 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 woman | amod |
| 27 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 asked | obj |
| 28 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 sitting | nsubj |
| 29 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 sitting | aux |
| 30 | sitting | sit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 27 woman | acl:relcl |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 doorway | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 doorway | det |
| 33 | doorway | doorway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 sitting | obl |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 give | mark |
| 35 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 sitting | advcl |
| 36 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 give | iobj |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 drink | det |
| 38 | drink | drink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 give | obj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 hot | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | way | still | hot property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | grow | past | Pei | thirsty property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | go | past | Pei | a little hut by the roadside | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to hut=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | past | Pei not said here | a old woman | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent woman=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | sit | past · progressive | a old woman | the doorway | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in doorway=Location | ||||
| 6 | give | to-infinitive | a old woman not said here | a drink | Pei | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient drink=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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