The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 3, sentence 37
His daughters carefully washed the rice and prepared the curry, and when these were ready, they put each dish on the fire.
Who acts: daughters, these · What happens: wash, prepare, be, put · To what, where: rice, curry, dish, fire
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daughters, these), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 daughters | nmod:poss |
| 2 | daughters | daughter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 washed | nsubj |
| 3 | carefully | carefully | ADV | _ | 4 washed | advmod |
| 4 | washed | wash | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 rice | det |
| 6 | rice | rice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 washed | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 prepared | cc |
| 8 | prepared | prepare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 washed | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 curry | det |
| 10 | curry | curry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 prepared | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 ready | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 ready | cc |
| 13 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 ready | advmod |
| 14 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 16 ready | nsubj |
| 15 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 ready | cop |
| 16 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 washed | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 put | punct |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 put | nsubj |
| 19 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 washed | conj |
| 20 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 dish | det |
| 21 | dish | dish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 put | obj |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 fire | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 fire | det |
| 24 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 put | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 washed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wash | past | One's daughters | the rice | carefully property | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rice=Patient | |||
| 2 | prepare | past | One's daughters not said here | the curry | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent curry=Patient | ||||
| 3 | is | past | these | ready property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | put | past | daughters = daughter | each dish | the fire | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent dish=Theme on fire=Destination |
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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