The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 7, sentence 5
He had not been there long before a group of children came to the field and began to play and enjoy themselves.
Who acts: Chô · What happens: have, not be, come, begin, play, enjoy · To what, where: field, children
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Chô), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 there | advmod |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 there | cop |
| 5 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 had | advmod |
| 6 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 had | advmod |
| 7 | before | before | ADP | _ | 9 group | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 group | det |
| 9 | group | group | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 came | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 children | case |
| 11 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 group | nmod |
| 12 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 had | parataxis |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 field | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 field | det |
| 15 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 came | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 began | cc |
| 17 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 came | conj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 play | mark |
| 19 | play | play | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 began | xcomp |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 enjoy | cc |
| 21 | enjoy | enjoy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 play | conj |
| 22 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 21 enjoy | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Chô | long property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | not is | participle | there property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | come | past | the field | before a group of children | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to field=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | begin | past | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||||
| 5 | play | to-infinitive | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 6 | enjoy | infinitive | children = child | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer themselves=Stimulus |
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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