The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 26, sentence 51
He then climbed into a branch overhanging it, and from there he threw down to the wedding guests handfuls of jewels, and the yellow-faced mandarin was as busy as any one picking them up, much to the disgust of many who thought he was rich enough already.
Who acts: Hang, faced mandarin, disgust · What happens: climb, overhang, throw down, be, pick up, think · To what, where: branch, guests handfuls, handfuls · 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 (Hang, faced mandarin, disgust), 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 | 3 climbed | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 climbed | advmod |
| 3 | climbed | climb | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 branch | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 branch | det |
| 6 | branch | branch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 climbed | obl |
| 7 | overhanging | overhang | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 climbed | advcl |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 overhanging | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 threw | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 threw | cc |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 there | case |
| 12 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 threw | obl |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 threw | nsubj |
| 14 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 climbed | conj |
| 15 | down | down | ADV | _ | 14 threw | advmod |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 handfuls | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 guests | det |
| 18 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 guests | compound |
| 19 | guests | guest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 handfuls | compound |
| 20 | handfuls | handful | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 threw | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 jewels | case |
| 22 | jewels | jewel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 handfuls | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 busy | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 busy | cc |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 mandarin | det |
| 26 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 faced | amod |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 yellow | punct |
| 28 | faced | faced | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 mandarin | amod |
| 29 | mandarin | mandarin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 busy | nsubj |
| 30 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 busy | cop |
| 31 | as | as | ADV | _ | 32 busy | advmod |
| 32 | busy | busy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 climbed | conj |
| 33 | as | as | ADP | _ | 35 one | case |
| 34 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 35 one | det |
| 35 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 busy | obl |
| 36 | picking | pick | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 32 busy | advcl |
| 37 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 picking | obj |
| 38 | up | up | ADP | _ | 36 picking | compound:prt |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 disgust | punct |
| 40 | much | much | ADV | _ | 43 disgust | advmod |
| 41 | to | to | ADP | _ | 43 disgust | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 disgust | det |
| 43 | disgust | disgust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 picking | obl |
| 44 | of | of | ADP | _ | 45 many | case |
| 45 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 disgust | nmod |
| 46 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 47 thought | nsubj |
| 47 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 43 disgust | acl:relcl |
| 48 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 50 rich | nsubj |
| 49 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 50 rich | cop |
| 50 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 thought | ccomp |
| 51 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 50 rich | advmod |
| 52 | already | already | ADV | _ | 50 rich | advmod |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 climbed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | climb | past | Hang | a branch | then | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into branch=Destination | |||
| 2 | overhang | gerund | Hang not said here | branch | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-Theme | ||||
| 3 | throw down | past | Hang | guests handfuls of jewels | down property | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent from there=Initial_Location to handful=Destination | |||
| 4 | is | past | the faced mandarin | as any one; busy property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | pick up | gerund | the faced mandarin not said here | handfuls = handful | to the disgust of many | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic | |||
| 6 | think speech: other | past | the disgust of many | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | is | past | Hang | enough, rich property | tree rules |
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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