The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 25, sentence 88

In it you will find six red seeds, one of which you must throw into each river as you come to it.

Who acts: you · What happens: find, throw, come · To what, where: six red seeds, box, river

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 (you), 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 it	case
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 find	obl
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 find	nsubj
4	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 find	aux
5	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 seeds	nummod
7	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 seeds	amod
8	seeds	seed	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 find	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 one	punct
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 seeds	appos
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 which	case
12	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 throw	obl
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 throw	nsubj
14	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 throw	aux
15	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 one	acl:relcl
16	into	into	ADP	_	18 river	case
17	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	18 river	det
18	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 throw	obl
19	as	as	SCONJ	_	21 come	mark
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 come	nsubj
21	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 throw	advcl
22	to	to	ADP	_	23 it	case
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 come	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 find	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	find	future	you	six red seeds	box		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seed=Topic
2	throw	must	you		each river	which obl	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent of which=Initial_Location into river=Destination
3	come	present	you		box		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to it=Initial_Location

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 25, sentence 88

The tree

Pragmatics

The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 25, sentence 88