The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 3, sentence 50
One day, while they were thus engaged, a beautiful pomelo tree grew up out of the grave, covered with fresh ripe pomelos, and the children certainly enjoyed the delicious fruit.
Who acts: beautiful pomelo tree, children · What happens: engage, grow up, cover, enjoy · To what, where: children, grave, delicious fruit
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 (beautiful pomelo tree, children), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 engaged | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 engaged | punct |
| 4 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 8 engaged | mark |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 engaged | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 engaged | aux:pass |
| 7 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 8 engaged | advmod |
| 8 | engaged | engage | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 grew | punct |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 tree | det |
| 11 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 tree | amod |
| 12 | pomelo | pomelo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 tree | compound |
| 13 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 grew | nsubj |
| 14 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 engaged | parataxis |
| 15 | up | up | ADP | _ | 14 grew | compound:prt |
| 16 | out | out | ADP | _ | 19 grave | case |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 grave | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 grave | det |
| 19 | grave | grave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 grew | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 covered | punct |
| 21 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 grave | acl |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 pomelos | case |
| 23 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 pomelos | amod |
| 24 | ripe | ripe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 pomelos | amod |
| 25 | pomelos | pomelo | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 covered | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 enjoyed | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 enjoyed | cc |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 children | det |
| 29 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 enjoyed | nsubj |
| 30 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 31 enjoyed | advmod |
| 31 | enjoyed | enjoy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 grew | conj |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 fruit | det |
| 33 | delicious | delicious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 fruit | amod |
| 34 | fruit | fruit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 enjoyed | obj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 engaged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | engage | past · passive | children = child | day | thus property | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||
| 2 | grow up | past | a beautiful pomelo tree | the grave | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out grave=Location | ||||
| 3 | cover | participle | the grave not said here | with fresh ripe pomelos | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with pomelo=Theme | ||||
| 4 | enjoy | past | the children | the delicious fruit | certainly property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fruit=Stimulus |
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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