The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 26, sentence 41
Having traveled for seven days Pei-Hang came to his father’s and mother’s house.
Who acts: Having · What happens: have, travel, come
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 (Having), 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 | Having | have | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 came | csubj |
| 2 | traveled | travel | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Having | xcomp |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 days | case |
| 4 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 days | nummod |
| 5 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 traveled | obl |
| 6 | Pei | Pei | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 days | appos |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 Pei | punct |
| 8 | Hang | Hang | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Pei | flat |
| 9 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 father | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 father | nmod:poss |
| 12 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 came | obl |
| 13 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 12 father | case |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 house | cc |
| 15 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 house | nmod:poss |
| 16 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 15 mother | case |
| 17 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 father | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | travel | participle | day | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | come | past | Having | to Pei's father and mother's house | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to father=Initial_Location |
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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