--- title: So they all drank, and when they had finished the brother-in-law ste… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics description: So they all drank, and when they had finished the brother-in-law stepped up, but Lumawig gave him a push which sent him into the rock, and water came from his body. Who acts: brother, Lumawig, push, water. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Op --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/23/136/) [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 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/23/) / 136 # The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 23, sentence 136 So they all drank, and when they had finished the brother-in-law stepped up, but Lumawig gave him a push which sent him into the rock, and water came from his body. **Who acts:** brother, Lumawig, push, water · **What happens:** drink, finish, step up, give, send, come · **To what, where:** law, push, Feast, LUMAWIG, rock, body This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brother, Lumawig, push, water), 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:pg65965:23:137 # text = So they all drank, and when they had finished the brother-in-law stepped up, but Lumawig gave him a push which sent him into the rock, and water came from his body. 1 So so ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 2 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 4 advmod _ _ 4 drank drink VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 7 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 10 advmod _ _ 8 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 9 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 10 finished finish VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 4 advcl _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 12 brother brother NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 16 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 in in ADP IN _ 16 case _ SpaceAfter=No 15 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 16 law law NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 17 stepped step VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 16 acl _ _ 18 up up ADP RP _ 17 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 but but CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 21 Lumawig Lumawig PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 22 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 23 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 iobj _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 push push NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 26 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 27 nsubj _ _ 27 sent send VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 acl:relcl _ _ 28 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 obj _ _ 29 into into ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 rock rock NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 34 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nsubj _ _ 35 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 36 from from ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 38 nmod:poss _ _ 38 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 39 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **drink** | past | brother | | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **finish** | past · perfect | brother | the law brother | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality law=Eventuality | | 3 | **step up** | participle | | the law brother *not said here* | | | | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **give** | past | Lumawig | a push | Feast | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient push=Theme | | 5 | **send** | past | a push | LUMAWIG | | the rock | | | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | | 6 | **come** | past | water | | | LUMAWIG's body | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from body=Initial\_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. - ← previous: [sentence 135](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/23/135/) - next →: [sentence 137](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/23/137/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/23/)