The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 23, sentence 95
He then bade them bring rice meal that he might feed them, and as the chickens ate they all grew rapidly till they were cocks and hens.
Who acts: Father, chickens · What happens: bade, bring, feed, eat, grow, be · To what, where: chickens, rice meal
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 (Father, chickens), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 bade | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 bade | advmod |
| 3 | bade | bade | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 bade | obj |
| 5 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 bade | xcomp |
| 6 | rice | rice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 meal | compound |
| 7 | meal | meal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bring | obj |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 feed | mark |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 feed | nsubj |
| 10 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 feed | aux |
| 11 | feed | feed | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 bring | conj |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 feed | iobj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 ate | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 ate | cc |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 18 ate | mark |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 chickens | det |
| 17 | chickens | chicken | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 ate | nsubj |
| 18 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 bade | parataxis |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 grew | nsubj |
| 20 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 grew | advmod |
| 21 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 ate | conj |
| 22 | rapidly | rapidly | ADV | _ | 21 grew | advmod |
| 23 | till | till | ADP | _ | 26 cocks | case |
| 24 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 cocks | nsubj |
| 25 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 cocks | cop |
| 26 | cocks | cock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 grew | obl |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 hens | cc |
| 28 | hens | hen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 cocks | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 bade | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bade | past | Father | chickens = chicken | then | tree rules | |||
| 2 | bring | infinitive | Father not said here | rice meal | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent meal=Theme | ||||
| 3 | feed | might | Father | chickens = chicken | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | eat | past | the chickens | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | grow | past | chickens = chicken | rapidly property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | is | past | chickens = chicken | till cocks and hens | hens conj | tree rules |
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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