The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 8, sentence 63
Then Jofuku gave Opulo a small bird made of paper, and told him to sit upon it.
Who acts: Jofuku · What happens: give, make, tell, sit · To what, where: small bird, Opulo, paper · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Jofuku), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 gave | advmod |
| 2 | Jofuku | Jofuku | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | nsubj |
| 3 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Opulo | Opulo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | iobj |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 bird | det |
| 6 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 bird | amod |
| 7 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | obj |
| 8 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 bird | acl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 paper | case |
| 10 | paper | paper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 made | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 told | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 told | cc |
| 13 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 gave | conj |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 told | iobj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 sit | mark |
| 16 | sit | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 told | xcomp |
| 17 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 18 it | case |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 sit | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | Jofuku | a small bird | Opulo | then | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent opulo=Recipient bird=Theme | ||
| 2 | make | participle | a small bird not said here | of paper | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | past | Jofuku not said here | Opulo | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | sit not said to happen | to-infinitive | Jofuku not said here | paper | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon it=Location |
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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