The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 26, sentence 42

He told them all that he had experienced, and for each white seed his mother had given him he gave her a jewel as large as an egg.

Who acts: Pei · What happens: tell, experience, give · To what, where: things, mother, jewel, river · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 told	nsubj
2	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 told	iobj
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 experienced	det:predet
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 experienced	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 experienced	nsubj
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 experienced	aux
8	experienced	experience	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 told	ccomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 given	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 given	cc
11	for	for	ADP	_	14 seed	case
12	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	14 seed	det
13	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 seed	amod
14	seed	seed	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 given	obl
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 mother	nmod:poss
16	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 given	nsubj:pass
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 given	aux
18	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 gave	advcl
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 given	obj
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 gave	nsubj
21	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 told	conj
22	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 gave	iobj
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 jewel	det
24	jewel	jewel	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 gave	obj
25	as	as	ADV	_	26 large	advmod
26	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 jewel	amod
27	as	as	ADP	_	29 egg	case
28	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 egg	det
29	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 large	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	Pei		things = thing		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
2	experience	past · perfect	Pei				vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer
3	give	past · perfect · passive		Pei's mother		for each white seed; Pei obj	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: subject=Recipient he=Theme for seed=Asset
4	give	past	Pei	a jewel	river		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient jewel=Theme

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 26, sentence 42

The tree

Pragmatics

The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 26, sentence 42