The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 25, sentence 106
Then Pei-Hang showed him the white seeds in the other box, and said: “With these I can make them as large as they were before, on my way back, so it is all right.
Who acts: Pei, these, seeds, way · What happens: show, say, make, be · To what, where: white seeds, Genii, other box, seeds · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Pei, these, seeds, way), 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 | 5 showed | advmod |
| 2 | Pei | Pei | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 showed | nsubj |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 Pei | punct |
| 4 | Hang | Hang | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Pei | flat |
| 5 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 showed | iobj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 seeds | det |
| 8 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 seeds | amod |
| 9 | seeds | seed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 showed | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 box | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 box | det |
| 12 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 box | amod |
| 13 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 showed | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 said | cc |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 showed | conj |
| 17 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 23 make | punct |
| 18 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 these | punct |
| 19 | With | with | ADP | _ | 20 these | case |
| 20 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 23 make | nsubj |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 make | nsubj |
| 22 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 make | aux |
| 23 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 said | ccomp |
| 24 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 make | obj |
| 25 | as | as | ADV | _ | 26 large | advmod |
| 26 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 make | xcomp |
| 27 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 30 before | mark |
| 28 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 before | nsubj |
| 29 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 before | cop |
| 30 | before | before | ADV | _ | 26 large | advmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 way | punct |
| 32 | on | on | ADP | _ | 34 way | case |
| 33 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 way | nmod:poss |
| 34 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 make | conj |
| 35 | back | back | ADV | _ | 34 way | advmod |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 right | punct |
| 37 | so | so | ADV | _ | 41 right | advmod |
| 38 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 right | nsubj |
| 39 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 41 right | cop |
| 40 | all | all | ADV | _ | 41 right | advmod |
| 41 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 make | advcl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 showed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | past | Pei | the white seeds | Genii | the other box | then | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient seed=Topic | |
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Pei not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | make in a quote | can | these | seeds = seed | I nsubj; my way conj; large property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Product | |||
| 4 | is in a quote | past | seeds = seed | before property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | is in a quote | present | way | all, right property | 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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