The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 6, sentence 53
The following day he went to collect firewood as usual, and as the head of his axe had become loose, he sat down to tighten it.
Who acts: Guido · What happens: follow, go, collect, become, sit down, tighten · To what, where: firewood, axe
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 day | det |
| 2 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 day | amod |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 went | nsubj |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 collect | mark |
| 7 | collect | collect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 went | xcomp |
| 8 | firewood | firewood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 collect | obj |
| 9 | as | as | ADP | _ | 10 usual | case |
| 10 | usual | usual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 collect | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 become | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 become | cc |
| 13 | as | as | ADP | _ | 15 head | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 head | det |
| 15 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 become | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 axe | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 axe | nmod:poss |
| 18 | axe | axe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 head | nmod |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 become | aux |
| 20 | become | become | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 went | conj |
| 21 | loose | loose | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 become | xcomp |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 sat | punct |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 sat | nsubj |
| 24 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 went | conj |
| 25 | down | down | ADP | _ | 24 sat | compound:prt |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 tighten | mark |
| 27 | tighten | tighten | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 sat | advcl |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 tighten | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | go | past | Guido | day | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | collect | to-infinitive | Guido not said here | firewood | as usual | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent firewood=Theme | |||
| 4 | become | past · perfect | Guido not said here | as the head of Guido's axe; loose property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 5 | sit down | past | Guido | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | tighten | to-infinitive | Guido not said here | axe | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
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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