The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 25, sentence 23
Then he left off wearing his fish-net shirt, but still wore the silver chain round his neck and had red silk in his pigtail.
Who acts: Pei · What happens: leave off, wear, have · To what, where: net shirt, silver chain, red silk, pigtail
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), 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 left | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 left | nsubj |
| 3 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | off | off | ADP | _ | 3 left | compound:prt |
| 5 | wearing | wear | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 left | xcomp |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 shirt | nmod:poss |
| 7 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 net | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 fish | punct |
| 9 | net | net | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 shirt | compound |
| 10 | shirt | shirt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wearing | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 wore | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 wore | cc |
| 13 | still | still | ADV | _ | 14 wore | advmod |
| 14 | wore | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 left | parataxis |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 chain | det |
| 16 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 chain | compound |
| 17 | chain | chain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 wore | obj |
| 18 | round | round | ADP | _ | 20 neck | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 neck | nmod:poss |
| 20 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 wore | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 had | cc |
| 22 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 wore | conj |
| 23 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 silk | amod |
| 24 | silk | silk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 had | obj |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 pigtail | case |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 pigtail | nmod:poss |
| 27 | pigtail | pigtail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 had | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave off | past | Pei | then | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | wear | gerund | Pei not said here | Pei's net shirt | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent shirt=Theme | ||||
| 3 | wear | past | the silver chain | still | round Pei's neck | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent chain=Source | |||
| 4 | have | past | red silk | Pei's pigtail | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent silk=Patient |
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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