The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 8, sentence 69
At last it became the same size as when Jofuku gave it to him, so he folded it up and put it in his pocket.
Who acts: flight, Jofuku, Opulo · What happens: become, give, fold up, put · To what, where: same size, last, flight, Opulo, pocket
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 (flight, Jofuku, Opulo), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 became | obl |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 became | nsubj |
| 4 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 size | det |
| 6 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 size | amod |
| 7 | size | size | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 became | xcomp |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 11 gave | mark |
| 9 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 gave | advmod |
| 10 | Jofuku | Jofuku | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 gave | nsubj |
| 11 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 became | advcl |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 gave | obj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 him | case |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 gave | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 folded | punct |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 folded | advmod |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 folded | nsubj |
| 18 | folded | fold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 became | conj |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 folded | obj |
| 20 | up | up | ADP | _ | 18 folded | compound:prt |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 put | cc |
| 22 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 folded | conj |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 put | obj |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 pocket | case |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 pocket | nmod:poss |
| 26 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 put | obl | ||
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 became | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | past | flight | the same size | last | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | |||
| 2 | give | past | Jofuku | flight | Opulo | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to he=Recipient | |||
| 3 | fold up | past | Opulo | flight | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 4 | put | infinitive | Opulo not said here | flight | Opulo's pocket | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in pocket=Destination |
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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