The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 3, sentence 43
Then the Rajah saw the Prime Minister’s widow go to the hearth, and as she took the wood, throw some mud into each of the dishes.
Who acts: Rajah, widow, Balna · What happens: see, go, take, throw · To what, where: hearth, wood, mud, each · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Rajah, widow, Balna), 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 | 4 saw | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Rajah | det |
| 3 | Rajah | Rajah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 saw | nsubj |
| 4 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Minister | det |
| 6 | Prime | Prime | PROPN | _ | 7 Minister | compound |
| 7 | Minister | Minister | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 widow | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 7 Minister | case |
| 9 | widow | widow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 go | nsubj |
| 10 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 saw | ccomp |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 hearth | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 hearth | det |
| 13 | hearth | hearth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 go | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 took | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 took | cc |
| 16 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 18 took | mark |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 took | nsubj |
| 18 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 saw | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 wood | det |
| 20 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 took | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 throw | punct |
| 22 | throw | throw | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 took | conj |
| 23 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 24 mud | det |
| 24 | mud | mud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 throw | obj |
| 25 | into | into | ADP | _ | 26 each | case |
| 26 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 throw | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 dishes | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 dishes | det |
| 29 | dishes | dish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 each | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the Rajah | then | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | go | infinitive | the Prime Minister's widow | the hearth | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to hearth=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | take | past | Balna | the wood | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wood=Theme | ||||
| 4 | throw | infinitive | Balna not said here | some mud | into each of the dishes result | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer mud=Theme into each=Result |
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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