The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 6, sentence 44
This illness took all of their savings, but as soon as he was able he returned to his usual occupation in the forest.
Who acts: illness, pits, Guido · What happens: take, be, return, save, occupy · To what, where: all, forest
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 (illness, pits, 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 illness | det |
| 2 | illness | illness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 took | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 savings | case |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 savings | nmod:poss |
| 7 | savings | savings | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 4 all | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 able | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 able | cc |
| 10 | as | as | ADV | _ | 11 soon | advmod |
| 11 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 able | advmod |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 able | mark |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 able | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 able | cop |
| 15 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 took | advcl |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 returned | nsubj |
| 17 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 able | acl:relcl |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 occupation | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 occupation | nmod:poss |
| 20 | usual | usual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 occupation | amod |
| 21 | occupation | occupation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 returned | obl |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 forest | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 forest | det |
| 24 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 occupation | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | this illness | all of pits's savings | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | illness | able, soon property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | return | past | illness | to Guido's usual occupation in the forest result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to occupation=Result | ||||
| 4 | save | pits = pit | nom savings «possession transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 5 | occupy | Guido | the forest | nom occupation «act transitive»: poss=agent in=place |
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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