The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 26, sentence 46
He put down the pestle and mortar and kissed Yun-Ying’s tears away.
Who acts: Pei · What happens: put down, kiss · To what, where: pestle, tears
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 put | nsubj |
| 2 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | down | down | ADP | _ | 2 put | compound:prt |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 pestle | det |
| 5 | pestle | pestle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 put | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 mortar | cc |
| 7 | mortar | mortar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pestle | conj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 kissed | cc |
| 9 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 put | conj |
| 10 | Yun | Yun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 tears | nmod:poss |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 Ying | punct |
| 12 | Ying | Ying | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Yun | nmod:unmarked |
| 13 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 10 Yun | case |
| 14 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 kissed | obj |
| 15 | away | away | ADV | _ | 9 kissed | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put down | past | Pei | the pestle and mortar | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent pestle=Goal | ||||
| 2 | kiss | past | Pei not said here | Yun Ying's tears | away property | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tear=Co-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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