The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 26, sentence 8
Each pebble on the margin of the lake was a precious stone, and Pei-Hang wanted to go down and fill his pockets with them.
Who acts: pebble, Pei Hang · What happens: be, want, go down, fill · To what, where: precious stone, pockets
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 (pebble, 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 | Each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 pebble | det |
| 2 | pebble | pebble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 stone | nsubj |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 margin | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 margin | det |
| 5 | margin | margin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 pebble | nmod |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 lake | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 lake | det |
| 8 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 margin | nmod |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 stone | cop |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 stone | det |
| 11 | precious | precious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 stone | amod |
| 12 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 wanted | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 wanted | cc |
| 15 | Pei | Pei | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Hang | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 Pei | punct |
| 17 | Hang | Hang | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 wanted | nsubj |
| 18 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 stone | conj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 go | mark |
| 20 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 wanted | xcomp |
| 21 | down | down | ADV | _ | 20 go | advmod |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 fill | cc |
| 23 | fill | fill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 go | conj |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 pockets | nmod:poss |
| 25 | pockets | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 fill | obj | |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 them | case |
| 27 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 fill | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 stone | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | each pebble on the margin of the lake | a precious stone | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | want | past | Pei Hang | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | go down not said to happen | to-infinitive | Pei Hang not said here | down property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | fill | infinitive | Pei Hang not said here | Hang's pockets | with pockets = pocket | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent pocket=Patient with they=Instrument |
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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