The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 26, sentence 33
Pei-Hang put the pestle in his pocket, and took up the mortar carefully, because he did not wish to lose any of the precious stones.
Who acts: Pei · What happens: put, take up, not wish, lose · To what, where: pestle, pocket, mortar, any
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), 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 | Pei | Pei | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 put | nsubj |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Pei | punct |
| 3 | Hang | Hang | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Pei | flat |
| 4 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 pestle | det |
| 6 | pestle | pestle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 put | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 pocket | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 pocket | nmod:poss |
| 9 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 put | obl | ||
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 took | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 took | cc |
| 12 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 put | parataxis |
| 13 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 took | compound:prt |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 mortar | det |
| 15 | mortar | mortar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 took | obj |
| 16 | carefully | carefully | ADV | _ | 12 took | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 wish | punct |
| 18 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 22 wish | mark |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 wish | nsubj |
| 20 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 wish | aux |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 wish | advmod |
| 22 | wish | wish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 took | conj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 lose | mark |
| 24 | lose | lose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 wish | xcomp |
| 25 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 24 lose | obj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 stones | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 stones | det |
| 28 | precious | precious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 stones | amod |
| 29 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 any | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | past | Pei | the pestle | Pei's pocket | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent pestle=Theme in pocket=Destination | |||
| 2 | take up | past | the mortar | carefully property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mortar=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not wish | past · do-support | Pei | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | lose not said to happen | to-infinitive | Pei not said here | any of the precious stones | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent any=Eventuality |
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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