The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 9, sentence 103
Quickly he drew the box from his girdle, took a good pinch of the snuff, and offered one to Mansor, who also took one, and both cried together “Mutabor!”
Who acts: Heaven, Mansor · What happens: draw, take, offer, cry, pinch · To what, where: box, girdle, good pinch, one, Mansor, Mutabor
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Heaven, Mansor), 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 | Quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 3 drew | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 drew | nsubj |
| 3 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 box | det |
| 5 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 drew | obj |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 girdle | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 girdle | nmod:poss |
| 8 | girdle | girdle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 box | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 took | punct |
| 10 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 drew | conj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 pinch | det |
| 12 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 pinch | amod |
| 13 | pinch | pinch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 took | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 snuff | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 snuff | det |
| 16 | snuff | snuff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 pinch | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 offered | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 offered | cc |
| 19 | offered | offer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 drew | conj |
| 20 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 offered | obj |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 Mansor | case |
| 22 | Mansor | Mansor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 offered | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 took | punct |
| 24 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 took | nsubj |
| 25 | also | also | ADV | _ | 26 took | advmod |
| 26 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 Mansor | acl:relcl |
| 27 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 26 took | obj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 cried | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 cried | cc |
| 30 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 31 cried | advmod |
| 31 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 drew | conj |
| 32 | together | together | ADV | _ | 31 cried | advmod |
| 33 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 34 Mutabor | punct |
| 34 | Mutabor | Mutabor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 cried | obl |
| 35 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 34 Mutabor | punct |
| 36 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 31 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw | past | Heaven | the box | Heaven's girdle | quickly property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent box=Theme from girdle=Initial_Location | ||
| 2 | take | past | Heaven not said here | a good pinch of the snuff | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pinch=Theme | ||||
| 3 | offer | past | Heaven not said here | one | Mansor | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent one=Theme to mansor=Goal | |||
| 4 | take | past | Mansor | one | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme | ||||
| 5 | cry speech: express | past | Heaven not said here | Mutabor | together property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 6 | pinch | the snuff | nom pinch «state transitive»: of=patient |
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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