The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 6, sentence 110
Holding this carefully in his hand, he returned to his home, and there he did as he had seen the children do in his dream.
Who acts: Musai, children · What happens: hold, return, do, see, dream · To what, where: this, hand, dream
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Musai, children), 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 | Holding | hold | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 returned | advcl |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 1 Holding | obj |
| 3 | carefully | carefully | ADV | _ | 1 Holding | advmod |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 hand | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 hand | nmod:poss |
| 6 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Holding | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Holding | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 returned | nsubj |
| 9 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 home | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 home | nmod:poss |
| 12 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 returned | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 did | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 did | cc |
| 15 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 17 did | expl |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 did | nsubj |
| 17 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 returned | conj |
| 18 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 21 seen | mark |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 seen | nsubj |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 seen | aux |
| 21 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 did | advcl |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 children | det |
| 23 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 do | nsubj |
| 24 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 seen | parataxis |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 dream | case |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 dream | nmod:poss |
| 27 | dream | dream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 do | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | gerund | Musai not said here | this | Musai's hand | carefully property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent this=Theme in hand=Location | ||
| 2 | return | past | Musai | to Musai's home result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to home=Result | ||||
| 3 | do | past | Musai | there | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | see | past · perfect | Musai | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | do | present | the children | Musai's dream | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | dream | Musai | nom dream «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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