The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 5, sentence 29
So he went to a temple in one of the large cities of Japan, and bribed the head priest to let him take away a stone bowl which was on the altar there.
Who acts: India, stone bowl · What happens: go, bribe, let, take away, be · To what, where: temple, head priest, India, stone bowl, altar
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (India, stone bowl), 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 went | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 temple | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 temple | det |
| 6 | temple | temple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 one | case |
| 8 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 went | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 cities | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 cities | det |
| 11 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 cities | amod |
| 12 | cities | city | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 one | nmod |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Japan | case |
| 14 | Japan | Japan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 cities | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 bribed | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 bribed | cc |
| 17 | bribed | bribe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 priest | det |
| 19 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 priest | compound |
| 20 | priest | priest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 bribed | obj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 let | mark |
| 22 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 bribed | advcl |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 let | obj |
| 24 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 let | xcomp |
| 25 | away | away | ADP | _ | 24 take | compound:prt |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 bowl | det |
| 27 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 bowl | compound |
| 28 | bowl | bowl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 take | obj |
| 29 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 33 altar | nsubj |
| 30 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 altar | cop |
| 31 | on | on | ADP | _ | 33 altar | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 altar | det |
| 33 | altar | altar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 bowl | appos |
| 34 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 33 altar | advmod |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | India | a temple | in one of the large cities of Japan | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to temple=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | bribe | past | India not said here | the head priest | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent priest=Patient | ||||
| 3 | let | to-infinitive | India not said here | India | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | take away | infinitive | India not said here | a stone bowl | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bowl=Theme | ||||
| 5 | is | past | a stone bowl | the altar; there | tree rules |
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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