The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 22, sentence 106

“Moreover, if you wait while the procession passes, you will see two children dressed to represent Han Chung and Ho-Seen-Ko, and their mother carrying the empty rice-bowl between them; for this is done every year to remind people to take care of the widow and fatherless,” she said.

Who acts: you, procession, mother · What happens: wait, pass, see, dress, represent, carry · To what, where: two children, Han, empty rice bowl, this, people, care · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (you, procession, mother), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	14 see	punct
2	Moreover	moreover	ADV	_	14 see	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Moreover	punct
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 wait	mark
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 wait	nsubj
6	wait	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 see	advcl
7	while	while	SCONJ	_	10 passes	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 procession	det
9	procession	procession	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 passes	nsubj
10	passes	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 wait	advcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 wait	punct
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 see	nsubj
13	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 see	aux
14	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	61 said	ccomp
15	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 children	nummod
16	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 see	obj
17	dressed	dress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 children	acl
18	to	to	PART	_	19 represent	mark
19	represent	represent	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 dressed	advcl
20	Han	Han	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 represent	obj
21	Chung	Chung	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 Han	flat
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 Ho	cc
23	Ho	Ho	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 Han	conj
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	25 Seen	punct
25	Seen	Seen	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 Han	conj
26	-	-	PUNCT	_	27 Ko	punct
27	Ko	Ko	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 Han	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 mother	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 mother	cc
30	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 mother	nmod:poss
31	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 see	parataxis
32	carrying	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	31 mother	acl
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 bowl	det
34	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 bowl	amod
35	rice	rice	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 bowl	compound
36	-	-	PUNCT	_	35 rice	punct
37	bowl	bowl	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 carrying	obj
38	between	between	ADP	_	39 them	case
39	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 bowl	nmod
40	;	;	PUNCT	_	44 done	punct
41	for	for	ADP	_	44 done	case
42	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	44 done	nsubj:pass
43	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	44 done	aux:pass
44	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 see	parataxis
45	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	46 year	det
46	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 done	obl:unmarked
47	to	to	PART	_	48 remind	mark
48	remind	remind	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	44 done	advcl
49	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	48 remind	obj
50	to	to	PART	_	51 take	mark
51	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	48 remind	xcomp
52	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 take	obj
53	of	of	ADP	_	55 widow	case
54	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	55 widow	det
55	widow	widow	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 take	obl
56	and	and	CCONJ	_	57 fatherless	cc
57	fatherless	fatherless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	55 widow	conj
58	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 see	punct
59	”	"	PUNCT	_	14 see	punct
60	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	61 said	nsubj
61	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
62	.	.	PUNCT	_	61 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	wait a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	you					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	pass in a quote	present	the procession					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	see in a quote	future	you	two children			children's mother parataxis; moreover property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer child=Stimulus
4	dress in a quote	participle		two children not said here				vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	represent in a quote	to-infinitive		Han and Ho and Seen and Ko				vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot han=Theme
6	carry in a quote	gerund	children's mother not said here	the empty rice bowl			between children = child	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bowl=Theme
7	do in a quote	present · passive		this		year		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
8	remind speech: other in a quote	to-infinitive			people			vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient S»: agent=Agent people=Recipient clause=Topic
9	take in a quote	to-infinitive		care			of the widow	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent care=Theme of widow=Initial_Location
10	say speech: assert	past	procession					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

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 22, sentence 106