The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 26, sentence 48
“You are too late to marry my daughter, but I’ll buy the pestle and mortar from you with some of the money the mandarin gave me.”
Who acts: You, mother, mandarin · What happens: be, marry, buy, give · To what, where: daughter, pestle, money, mother
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 (You, mother, mandarin), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 late | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 late | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 late | cop |
| 4 | too | too | ADV | _ | 5 late | advmod |
| 5 | late | late | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 marry | mark |
| 7 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 late | xcomp |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 9 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 marry | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 buy | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 buy | cc |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 buy | nsubj |
| 13 | ’ll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 buy | aux |
| 14 | buy | buy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 marry | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 pestle | det |
| 16 | pestle | pestle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 buy | obj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 mortar | cc |
| 18 | mortar | mortar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 pestle | conj |
| 19 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 you | case |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 buy | obl |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 money | case |
| 22 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 25 money | nsubj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 money | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 money | det |
| 25 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 buy | obl |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 mandarin | det |
| 27 | mandarin | mandarin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 gave | nsubj |
| 28 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 money | acl:relcl |
| 29 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 gave | iobj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 late | punct |
| 31 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 late | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | You | late property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | marry in a quote | to-infinitive | You not said here | my daughter | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient | ||||
| 3 | buy in a quote | future | Ying's mother = mother | the pestle and mortar | from you; with the money | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent pestle=Theme from you=Source | |||
| 4 | give in a quote | past | the mandarin | the money not said here | Ying's mother = mother | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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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