The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 6, sentence 52
The next time Guido went to the forest he forgot to take the axe with which to chop the wood, but there appeared before him the monkey he had liberated, and the grateful animal, with his teeth and nails, cut the wood for him.
Who acts: Guido · What happens: go, forget, not take, chop, appear, liberate · To what, where: next time, axe, wood, monkey
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 (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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 time | det |
| 2 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 time | amod |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 forgot | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | Guido | Guido | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 went | nsubj |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 time | acl:relcl |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 forest | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 forest | det |
| 8 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | obl |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 forgot | nsubj |
| 10 | forgot | forget | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 take | mark |
| 12 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 forgot | xcomp |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 axe | det |
| 14 | axe | axe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 take | obj |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 which | case |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 take | obj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 chop | mark |
| 18 | chop | chop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 take | advcl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 wood | det |
| 20 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 chop | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 appeared | punct |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 appeared | cc |
| 23 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 24 appeared | advmod |
| 24 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 forgot | conj |
| 25 | before | before | ADP | _ | 26 him | case |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 appeared | obl |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 monkey | det |
| 28 | monkey | monkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 appeared | obj |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 liberated | nsubj |
| 30 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 liberated | aux |
| 31 | liberated | liberate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 28 monkey | acl:relcl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 animal | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 animal | cc |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 animal | det |
| 35 | grateful | grateful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 animal | amod |
| 36 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 appeared | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 teeth | punct |
| 38 | with | with | ADP | _ | 40 teeth | case |
| 39 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 teeth | nmod:poss |
| 40 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 appeared | obl |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 nails | cc |
| 42 | nails | nail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 teeth | conj |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 cut | punct |
| 44 | cut | cut | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 24 appeared | parataxis |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 wood | det |
| 46 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 cut | obj |
| 47 | for | for | ADP | _ | 48 him | case |
| 48 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 cut | obl |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 forgot | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Guido | the next time not said here | to the forest | tree rules | |||
| 2 | forget | past | Guido | time | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not take | to-infinitive | Guido not said here | the axe | which obj | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument axe=Theme which=Destination | |||
| 4 | chop | to-infinitive | Guido not said here | the wood | vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wood=Patient | ||||
| 5 | appear | past | Guido not said here | the monkey | there | before Guido | with Guido's teeth and nails; the grateful animal obl | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location monkey=Theme | |
| 6 | liberate | past · perfect | Guido | the monkey not said here | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent monkey=Theme | ||||
| 7 | cut | infinitive | the wood | for Guido | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent wood=Product for he=Beneficiary |
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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