The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 5, sentence 30
He wrapped this up very carefully, and after waiting for two years, took it to the old bamboo-cutter.
Who acts: India · What happens: wrap up, wait, take · To what, where: this, bowl, old bamboo cutter
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), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 wrapped | nsubj |
| 2 | wrapped | wrap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 wrapped | obj |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 wrapped | compound:prt |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 carefully | advmod |
| 6 | carefully | carefully | ADV | _ | 2 wrapped | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 took | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 took | cc |
| 9 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 10 waiting | mark |
| 10 | waiting | wait | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 took | advcl |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 years | case |
| 12 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 years | nummod |
| 13 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 waiting | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 waiting | punct |
| 15 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 wrapped | parataxis |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 took | obj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 cutter | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 cutter | det |
| 19 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 cutter | amod |
| 20 | bamboo | bamboo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 cutter | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 bamboo | punct |
| 22 | cutter | cutter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 took | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 wrapped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wrap up | past | India | this | carefully property | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent this=Theme | |||
| 2 | wait | gerund | year | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | take | past | bowl | the old bamboo cutter | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to cutter=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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