The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 26, sentence 22
At last he jumped up and asked the friendly Geni if he would make a little heap of stones at one side of the mortar.
Who acts: man · What happens: jump up, ask, make · To what, where: last, friendly Geni, little heap, one side
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 (man), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 jumped | obl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 jumped | nsubj |
| 4 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 jumped | compound:prt |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 asked | cc |
| 7 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 jumped | conj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Geni | det |
| 9 | friendly | friendly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Geni | amod |
| 10 | Geni | Geni | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 asked | iobj |
| 11 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 14 make | mark |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 make | nsubj |
| 13 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 make | aux |
| 14 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 asked | ccomp |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 heap | det |
| 16 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 heap | amod |
| 17 | heap | heap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 make | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 stones | case |
| 19 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 heap | nmod |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 side | case |
| 21 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 side | nummod |
| 22 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 make | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 mortar | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 mortar | det |
| 25 | mortar | mortar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 side | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 jumped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | jump up | past | man | last | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at last=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | man not said here | the friendly Geni | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent geni=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | make a condition, not said to happen | would | man | a little heap of stones | one side of the mortar | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heap=Product |
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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