The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 8, sentence 101
Why hadn’t he sold it, and taken the proceeds with him?
Who acts: life · What happens: not have, sell, take, proceed · To what, where: business
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (life), 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 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 had | advmod |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 sold | advcl |
| 3 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 2 had | advmod |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 sold | nsubj |
| 5 | sold | sell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 sold | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 taken | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 taken | cc |
| 9 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 sold | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 proceeds | det |
| 11 | proceeds | proceed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 taken | conj |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 him | case |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 proceeds | obl |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 sold | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not have | past | life not said here | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | sell | past | life | business | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 3 | take | participle | life not said here | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | proceed | present | life not said here | with life | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: 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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