The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 6, sentence 43
As soon as Guido’s wife heard of this she saddled their ass, and going to the palace, carefully placed her husband upon its back, and took him home, where he lay sick for a long time.
Who acts: wife, palace, Guido · What happens: hear, saddle, go, place, take, lie · To what, where: ass, palace, husband, back, Guido
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 (wife, palace, Guido), 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 | As | as | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 heard | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | ADP | _ | 6 wife | case |
| 4 | Guido | Guido | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 wife | nmod:poss |
| 5 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 4 Guido | case |
| 6 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 heard | nsubj |
| 7 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 this | case |
| 9 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 heard | obl |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 saddled | nsubj |
| 11 | saddled | saddle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 heard | conj |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 ass | nmod:poss |
| 13 | ass | ass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 saddled | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 going | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 going | cc |
| 16 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 heard | conj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 palace | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 palace | det |
| 19 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 going | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 placed | punct |
| 21 | carefully | carefully | ADV | _ | 22 placed | advmod |
| 22 | placed | place | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 palace | acl |
| 23 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 husband | nmod:poss |
| 24 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 placed | obj |
| 25 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 27 back | case |
| 26 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 back | nmod:poss |
| 27 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 husband | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 took | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 took | cc |
| 30 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 heard | conj |
| 31 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 took | obj |
| 32 | home | home | ADV | _ | 30 took | advmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 lay | punct |
| 34 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 36 lay | advmod |
| 35 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 lay | nsubj |
| 36 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 took | advcl |
| 37 | sick | sick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 lay | xcomp |
| 38 | for | for | ADP | _ | 41 time | case |
| 39 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 41 time | det |
| 40 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 time | amod |
| 41 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 lay | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | Guido's wife | of this; soon property | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of this=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | saddle | past | wife | pits's ass | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent ass=Destination | ||||
| 3 | go | gerund | Guido's wife not said here | the palace | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to palace=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | place | participle | the palace not said here | wife's husband | palace's back | carefully property | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent husband=Theme upon back=Destination | ||
| 5 | take | past | Guido's wife not said here | Guido | home property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination | |||
| 6 | lie | past | Guido | time | sick property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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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