The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 3, sentence 33
But the other sisters rebuked her, and so the widow continued to take some fire from the hearth, but while no one was looking, she would throw some mud into the dishes which were being prepared for the Rajah’s dinner.
Who acts: other sisters, widow, one, woman · What happens: rebuke, continue, take, look, throw, prepare · To what, where: woman, fire, hearth, mud, dishes
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (other sisters, widow, one, woman), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 rebuked | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 sisters | det |
| 3 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 sisters | amod |
| 4 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 rebuked | nsubj |
| 5 | rebuked | rebuke | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 rebuked | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 continued | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 continued | cc |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 continued | advmod |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 widow | det |
| 11 | widow | widow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 continued | nsubj |
| 12 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 rebuked | parataxis |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 take | mark |
| 14 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 continued | xcomp |
| 15 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 16 fire | det |
| 16 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 take | obj |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 hearth | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 hearth | det |
| 19 | hearth | hearth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 take | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 throw | punct |
| 21 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 30 throw | cc |
| 22 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 26 looking | mark |
| 23 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 24 one | det |
| 24 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 looking | nsubj |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 looking | aux |
| 26 | looking | look | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 30 throw | advcl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 looking | punct |
| 28 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 throw | nsubj |
| 29 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 throw | aux |
| 30 | throw | throw | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 take | conj |
| 31 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 32 mud | det |
| 32 | mud | mud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 throw | obj |
| 33 | into | into | ADP | _ | 35 dishes | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 dishes | det |
| 35 | dishes | dish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 throw | obl |
| 36 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 39 prepared | nsubj:pass |
| 37 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 prepared | aux:pass |
| 38 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 39 prepared | aux:pass |
| 39 | prepared | prepare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 35 dishes | acl:relcl |
| 40 | for | for | ADP | _ | 44 dinner | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 Rajah | det |
| 42 | Rajah | Rajah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 44 dinner | nmod:poss |
| 43 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 42 Rajah | case |
| 44 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 prepared | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 rebuked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rebuke | past | the other sisters | woman | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 2 | continue | past | the widow | vn continue-55.3 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | take | to-infinitive | the widow not said here | some fire | the hearth | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent fire=Theme from hearth=Initial_Location | |||
| 4 | look | past · progressive | no one | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | throw | would | woman | some mud | into the dishes result | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer mud=Theme into dish=Result | |||
| 6 | prepare | past · passive | the dishes | for the Rajah's dinner | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Product for dinner=Beneficiary |
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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