The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 26, sentence 54

He was sure that Yun-Ying’s mother would have no more to do with him now that she could marry her daughter to one who scattered jewels as Pei-Hang did.

Who acts: mandarin, mother, Pei Hang · What happens: be, have, do, marry, scatter · To what, where: more, daughter, one, jewels

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 (mandarin, mother, Pei Hang), 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 sure	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sure	cop
3	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 have	mark
5	Yun	Yun	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Ying	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 Yun	punct
7	Ying	Ying	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 mother	nmod:poss
8	’s	's	PART	_	7 Ying	case
9	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 have	nsubj
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 have	aux
11	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 sure	ccomp
12	no	no	ADV	_	13 more	advmod
13	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	11 have	obj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 do	mark
15	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 more	advcl
16	with	with	ADP	_	17 him	case
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 do	obl
18	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	22 marry	advmod
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 marry	mark
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 marry	nsubj
21	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 marry	aux
22	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 have	xcomp
23	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 daughter	nmod:poss
24	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 marry	obj
25	to	to	ADP	_	26 one	case
26	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 marry	obl
27	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 scattered	nsubj
28	scattered	scatter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 one	acl:relcl
29	jewels	jewel	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 scattered	obj
30	as	as	SCONJ	_	34 did	mark
31	Pei	Pei	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 Hang	compound
32	-	-	PUNCT	_	31 Pei	punct
33	Hang	Hang	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 did	nsubj
34	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 scattered	advcl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sure	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	mandarin				sure property	tree rules
2	have	would	Yun Ying's mother	more				tree rules
3	do	to-infinitive	Yun Ying's mother not said here				with mandarin	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	marry	could	mother	mother's daughter	one	now		vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient to one=Co-Patient
5	scatter	past		jewels			who nsubj	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent jewel=Theme
6	do	past	Pei Hang					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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🌲 The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 26, sentence 54

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The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 26, sentence 54