The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 26, sentence 15
Then he sat down on the ground to think the matter over, and the Genii, even his own good-natured Geni, laughed at him again.
Who acts: Pei, Genii · What happens: sit down, think over, laugh · To what, where: ground, matter
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Pei, Genii), 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 sat | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sat | nsubj |
| 3 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | down | down | ADP | _ | 3 sat | compound:prt |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 ground | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 ground | det |
| 7 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sat | obl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 think | mark |
| 9 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 sat | advcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 matter | det |
| 11 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 think | obj |
| 12 | over | over | ADV | _ | 9 think | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 laughed | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 laughed | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Genii | det |
| 16 | Genii | Genii | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 laughed | nsubj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 Geni | punct |
| 18 | even | even | ADV | _ | 24 Geni | advmod |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 Geni | nmod:poss |
| 20 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 Geni | amod |
| 21 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 natured | amod |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 good | punct |
| 23 | natured | natured | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 Geni | amod |
| 24 | Geni | Geni | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Genii | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 Genii | punct |
| 26 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sat | conj |
| 27 | at | at | ADP | _ | 28 him | case |
| 28 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 laughed | obl |
| 29 | again | again | ADV | _ | 26 laughed | advmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit down | past | Pei | the ground | then | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on ground=Location | |||
| 2 | think over speech: other | to-infinitive | Pei not said here | the matter | over property | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot matter=Theme | |||
| 3 | laugh | past | the Genii and Pei's own natured Geni | again | at Pei | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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