The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 25, sentence 94
But she gave him a box containing six white seeds, one of which he was to cast into each brook as he passed it on his return journey, and it would then expand into a river again.
Who acts: mother, box, Pei, brook · What happens: give, contain, be, pass, expand, journey · To what, where: box, Pei, six white seeds, brook, return journey, 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 (mother, box, Pei, brook), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 gave | cc |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 gave | nsubj |
| 3 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 gave | iobj |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 box | det |
| 6 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | obj |
| 7 | containing | contain | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 box | acl |
| 8 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 seeds | nummod |
| 9 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 seeds | amod |
| 10 | seeds | seed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 containing | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 one | punct |
| 12 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 seeds | appos |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 which | case |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 cast | obl |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 cast | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 cast | cop |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 cast | mark |
| 18 | cast | cast | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 one | acl:relcl |
| 19 | into | into | ADP | _ | 21 brook | case |
| 20 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 brook | det |
| 21 | brook | brook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 cast | obl |
| 22 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 24 passed | mark |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 passed | nsubj |
| 24 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 cast | advcl |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 passed | obj |
| 26 | on | on | ADP | _ | 29 journey | case |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 journey | nmod:poss |
| 28 | return | return | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 journey | compound |
| 29 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 passed | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 expand | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 expand | cc |
| 32 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 expand | nsubj |
| 33 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 expand | aux |
| 34 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 35 expand | advmod |
| 35 | expand | expand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 gave | conj |
| 36 | into | into | ADP | _ | 38 river | case |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 river | det |
| 38 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 expand | obl |
| 39 | again | again | ADV | _ | 35 expand | advmod |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | mother | a box | Pei | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient box=Theme | |||
| 2 | contain | gerund | a box not said here | six white seeds | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot seed=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | past | Pei | each brook | which obl; cast property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | pass | past | Pei | box | Pei's return journey | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme on journey=Destination | |||
| 5 | expand | would | brook | a river | then; again | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||
| 6 | journey | Pei | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=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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