The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 22, sentence 108
But she was not like his wife in anything but her dress, and the children were not at all like Han Chung and Ho-Seen-Ko; and poor Wang Chih’s heart was very heavy as he walked out of the town.
Who acts: procession, all, Wang · What happens: not be, be, walk out · To what, where: anything, town
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 (procession, all, Wang), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 wife | cc |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 wife | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 wife | cop |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 wife | advmod |
| 5 | like | like | ADP | _ | 7 wife | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 wife | nmod:poss |
| 7 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 anything | case |
| 9 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 7 wife | nmod |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 dress | cc |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 dress | nmod:poss |
| 12 | dress | dress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 anything | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 heavy | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 heavy | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 children | det |
| 16 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 all | nsubj |
| 17 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 all | cop |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 all | advmod |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 all | case |
| 20 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 39 heavy | nsubj |
| 21 | like | like | ADP | _ | 23 Chung | case |
| 22 | Han | Han | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Chung | compound |
| 23 | Chung | Chung | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 all | nmod |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 Ho | cc |
| 25 | Ho | Ho | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Chung | conj |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 27 Seen | punct |
| 27 | Seen | Seen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Chung | appos |
| 28 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 29 Ko | punct |
| 29 | Ko | Ko | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Seen | conj |
| 30 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 39 heavy | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 heavy | cc |
| 32 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 Chih | amod |
| 33 | Wang | Wang | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 Chih | compound |
| 34 | Chih | Chih | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 heart | nmod:poss |
| 35 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 34 Chih | case |
| 36 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 heavy | nsubj |
| 37 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 heavy | cop |
| 38 | very | very | ADV | _ | 39 heavy | advmod |
| 39 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 wife | parataxis |
| 40 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 42 walked | mark |
| 41 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 walked | nsubj |
| 42 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 heavy | advcl |
| 43 | out | out | ADP | _ | 46 town | case |
| 44 | of | of | ADP | _ | 46 town | case |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 town | det |
| 46 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 walked | obl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 wife | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | procession | anything procession's dress | like Wang's wife; Wang nmod:poss | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is | past | all the children like Han Chung and Ho | poor Wang Chih's heart nsubj; heavy property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | walk out | past | Wang | the town | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent town=Attribute |
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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