The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 23, sentence 72
But Wang Chih did not tell them his adventures just then; only when darkness fell, and the Feast of Lanterns began, he took his part in it with a merry heart.
Who acts: Wang, darkness, Feast · What happens: not tell, fall, begin, take, adventure · To what, where: adventures, lanterns, part, darkness · Speech: someone speaks here
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, darkness, Feast), 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 | _ | 6 tell | cc |
| 2 | Wang | Wang | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 tell | nsubj |
| 3 | Chih | Chih | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Wang | flat |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 tell | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 tell | advmod |
| 6 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 tell | iobj |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 adventures | nmod:poss |
| 9 | adventures | adventure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 tell | obj |
| 10 | just | just | ADV | _ | 11 then | advmod |
| 11 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 tell | advmod |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 fell | punct |
| 13 | only | only | ADV | _ | 16 fell | advmod |
| 14 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 fell | advmod |
| 15 | darkness | darkness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 fell | nsubj |
| 16 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 tell | advcl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 began | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 began | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Feast | det |
| 20 | Feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 began | nsubj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 Lanterns | case |
| 22 | Lanterns | Lantern | PROPN | Number=Plur | 20 Feast | nmod |
| 23 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 fell | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 took | punct |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 took | nsubj |
| 26 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 began | advcl |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 part | nmod:poss |
| 28 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 took | obj |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 it | case |
| 30 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 took | obl |
| 31 | with | with | ADP | _ | 34 heart | case |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 heart | det |
| 33 | merry | merry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 heart | amod |
| 34 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 took | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not tell speech: assert | past · do-support | Wang | Wang's adventures | lanterns = lantern | then | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient adventure=Topic | ||
| 2 | fall | past | darkness | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | begin | past | the Feast of Lanterns | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | take | past | Feast | Wang's part | darkness | with a merry heart | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent part=Value in it=Location | ||
| 5 | adventure | Wang | nom adventure «act transitive»: poss=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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