The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 21, sentence 14

So the sixty-nine maidens mixed a hundred-weight of millet seed with a hundred-weight of sand, and giving it to Rasalu, bade him separate the seed from the sand.

Who acts: nine maidens · What happens: mix, give, separate · To what, where: hundred weight, weight, Rasalu, bade

This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nine maidens), 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	So	so	ADV	_	7 mixed	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 maidens	det
3	sixty	sixty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 nine	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 sixty	punct
5	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 maidens	nummod
6	maidens	maiden	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 mixed	nsubj
7	mixed	mix	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 weight	det
9	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 weight	nummod
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 hundred	punct
11	weight	weight	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 mixed	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 seed	case
13	millet	millet	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 seed	compound
14	seed	seed	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 weight	nmod
15	with	with	ADP	_	19 weight	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 weight	det
17	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 weight	nummod
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 hundred	punct
19	weight	weight	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 mixed	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 sand	case
21	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 weight	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 giving	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 giving	cc
24	giving	give	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 mixed	advcl
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 giving	obj
26	to	to	ADP	_	27 Rasalu	case
27	Rasalu	Rasalu	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 giving	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 separate	punct
29	bade	bade	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 separate	obl
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 bade	obj
31	separate	separate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 mixed	conj
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 seed	det
33	seed	seed	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 separate	obj
34	from	from	ADP	_	36 sand	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 sand	det
36	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 separate	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 mixed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	mix	past	the nine maidens	a hundred weight of millet seed		with a hundred weight of sand	vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent weight=Patient with weight=Co-Patient
2	give	gerund	the nine maidens not said here	weight	Rasalu		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to rasalu=Recipient
3	separate	present	the nine maidens not said here	bade maiden		from the sand; the seed obj	vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent seed=Patient from sand=Co-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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🌲 The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 21, sentence 14

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The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 21, sentence 14