--- title: One day his mother, who was almost discouraged with him, gave him a… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics description: One day his mother, who was almost discouraged with him, gave him a bolo[4] and sent him to the forest, for she thought he could at least cut firewood. Who acts: mother, One day, family. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 22, wit --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/22/29/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Jade Story Book; Stories from the…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/) / [Opening, part 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/22/) / 29 # The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 22, sentence 29 One day his mother, who was almost discouraged with him, gave him a bolo\[4\] and sent him to the forest, for she thought he could at least cut firewood. **Who acts:** mother, One day, family · **What happens:** be, give, send, think, cut · **To what, where:** bolo, JUAN, forest This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, One day, family), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg65965:22:30 # text = One day his mother, who was almost discouraged with him, gave him a bolo[4] and sent him to the forest, for she thought he could at least cut firewood. 1 One one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 3 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ _ 4 mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 6 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 9 nsubj _ _ 7 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 8 almost almost ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 9 discouraged discouraged ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 acl:relcl _ _ 10 with with ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 13 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 14 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 iobj _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 bolo bolo NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 [ [ PUNCT -LRB- _ 18 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 18 4 4 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 16 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 19 ] ] PUNCT -RRB- _ 18 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 sent send VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 22 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 obj _ _ 23 to to ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 forest forest NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 for for SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 28 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 29 thought think VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ _ 30 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 31 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 29 ccomp _ _ 32 at at ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 least least ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 35 nmod _ _ 34 cut cut VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 35 amod _ _ 35 firewood firewood NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 36 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | JUAN's mother | | | | | with JUAN; almost, discouraged *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **give** | past | One day JUAN's mother | a bolo | JUAN | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient bolo=Theme | | 3 | **send** | past | One day JUAN's mother *not said here* | JUAN | | the forest | | | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to forest=Destination | | 4 | **think** *speech: other* | past | family | | | | | | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **cut** | participle | | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/22/28/) - next →: [sentence 30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/22/30/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/22/)