The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 23, sentence 58
Wang Chih obeyed, and through this window he saw his own dear little village, and his wife, and Han Chung and Ho-Seen-Ko jumping about her as she hung up the colored lanterns outside the door.
Who acts: Wang, Ko · What happens: obey, see, jump, hang up, color · To what, where: wife, own dear little village, window, colored lanterns, door
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 (Wang, Ko), 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 | Wang | Wang | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 obeyed | nsubj |
| 2 | Chih | Chih | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Wang | flat |
| 3 | obeyed | obey | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 saw | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 saw | cc |
| 6 | through | through | ADP | _ | 8 window | case |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 window | det |
| 8 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 saw | obl |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 saw | nsubj |
| 10 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 obeyed | conj |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 village | nmod:poss |
| 12 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 village | amod |
| 13 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 village | amod |
| 14 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 village | amod |
| 15 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 saw | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 wife | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 wife | cc |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 wife | nmod:poss |
| 19 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 obeyed | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 Chung | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 Chung | cc |
| 22 | Han | Han | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Chung | compound |
| 23 | Chung | Chung | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 obeyed | obl |
| 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 | 23 Chung | conj |
| 30 | jumping | jump | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 obeyed | advcl |
| 31 | about | about | ADP | _ | 32 her | case |
| 32 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 jumping | obl |
| 33 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 35 hung | mark |
| 34 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 hung | nsubj |
| 35 | hung | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 jumping | advcl |
| 36 | up | up | ADP | _ | 35 hung | compound:prt |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 lanterns | det |
| 38 | colored | color | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 39 lanterns | amod |
| 39 | lanterns | lantern | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 hung | obj |
| 40 | outside | outside | ADP | _ | 42 door | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 door | det |
| 42 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 lanterns | nmod |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 obeyed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | obey | past | Wang | Wang's wife | Han Chung and Ho and Ko obl | vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | see | past | Wang | Wang's own dear little village | this window | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer village=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | jump | gerund | Wang not said here | about Ko | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about she=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | hang up | past | Ko | the colored lanterns | the door | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent lantern=Theme outside door=Destination | |||
| 5 | color | participle | vn coloring-24 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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