The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 23, sentence 87

Then Fukan told her of the young man who could fill a basket from one pod of beans, and the father, who heard her story, said:

Who acts: Fukan, young man, father · What happens: tell, fill, hear, say · To what, where: mother, basket, one pod, story · 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 (Fukan, young man, father), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 told	advmod
2	Fukan	Fukan	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 told	nsubj
3	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 told	iobj
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 man	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 man	det
7	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 man	amod
8	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 told	obl
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 fill	nsubj
10	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 fill	aux
11	fill	fill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 man	acl:relcl
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 basket	det
13	basket	basket	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 fill	obj
14	from	from	ADP	_	16 pod	case
15	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 pod	nummod
16	pod	pod	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 fill	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 beans	case
18	beans	bean	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 pod	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 said	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 said	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 father	det
22	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 said	nsubj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 heard	punct
24	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 heard	nsubj
25	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 father	acl:relcl
26	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 story	nmod:poss
27	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 heard	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 heard	punct
29	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 told	conj
30	:	:	PUNCT	_	29 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	Fukan		mother		then	of the young man	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
2	fill	could	the young man	a basket		one pod of beans			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent basket=Patient
3	hear	past	the father	Fukan's story					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer story=Stimulus
4	say speech: assert	past	the father						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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🌲 The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 23, sentence 87

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The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 23, sentence 87