The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 26, sentence 27
This he did again and again, emptying them into the mortar each time, until it was quite full and held gems enough to make Pei-Hang the richest man in China.
Who acts: This, mortar · What happens: do, empty, be, hold, make · To what, where: diamonds, mortar, gems, Pei
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, mortar), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 did | nsubj |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 did | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | again | again | ADV | _ | 3 did | advmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 again | cc |
| 6 | again | again | ADV | _ | 4 again | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 emptying | punct |
| 8 | emptying | empty | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 did | advcl |
| 9 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 emptying | obj |
| 10 | into | into | ADP | _ | 12 mortar | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 mortar | det |
| 12 | mortar | mortar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 emptying | obl |
| 13 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 time | det |
| 14 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 emptying | obl:unmarked |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 full | punct |
| 16 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 20 full | mark |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 full | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 full | cop |
| 19 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 20 full | advmod |
| 20 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 did | parataxis |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 held | cc |
| 22 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 full | conj |
| 23 | gems | gem | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 held | obj |
| 24 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 22 held | advmod |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 make | mark |
| 26 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 held | advcl |
| 27 | Pei | Pei | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 make | obj |
| 28 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 27 Pei | punct |
| 29 | Hang | Hang | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Pei | flat |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 man | det |
| 31 | richest | rich | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 32 man | amod |
| 32 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 make | xcomp |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 China | case |
| 34 | China | China | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 man | nmod |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | This | again; again | Pei nsubj | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | empty | gerund | This not said here | diamonds = diamond | the mortar | time | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP PP.source PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme into mortar=Destination | ||
| 3 | is | past | mortar | full property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | hold | past | mortar not said here | gems | enough property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gem=Theme | |||
| 5 | make | to-infinitive | mortar not said here | Pei | the richest man in China xcomp | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset pei=Product |
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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