The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 3, sentence 58
So they called to her, and gave her some of the pomelos.
Who acts: girls · What happens: call, give · To what, where: Balna, some · 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 (girls), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 called | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 called | nsubj |
| 3 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 her | case |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 called | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 gave | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 gave | cc |
| 8 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 called | conj |
| 9 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 gave | iobj |
| 10 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 gave | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 pomelos | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 pomelos | det |
| 13 | pomelos | pomelo | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 some | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | past | girls = girl | Balna | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | give | past | girls = girl not said here | some of the pomelos | Balna | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient some=Theme |
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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