The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 8, sentence 33
With this, he set himself to the great task of cutting all their bonds, and in time all were free.
Who acts: tenderness, great task, all, strings · What happens: set, cut, be, bond · To what, where: tenderness, bonds
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 (tenderness, great task, all, strings), 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 2 this | case |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 set | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 this | punct |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 set | nsubj |
| 5 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 5 set | obj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 task | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 task | det |
| 9 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 task | amod |
| 10 | task | task | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 set | obl |
| 11 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 12 cutting | mark |
| 12 | cutting | cut | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 task | acl |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 bonds | det:predet |
| 14 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 bonds | nmod:poss |
| 15 | bonds | bond | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 cutting | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 free | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 free | cc |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 time | case |
| 19 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 free | obl |
| 20 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 free | nsubj |
| 21 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 free | cop |
| 22 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 set | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set | past | tenderness | tenderness | with this; to the great task | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent himself=Patient with this=Instrument | |||
| 2 | cut | gerund | the great task not said here | strings's bonds | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset bond=Product | ||||
| 3 | is | past | all | time | free property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | bond | strings = string | nom bond «phenomenon transitive»: poss=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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