The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 3, sentence 51

And each day after this, instead of eating the poor food their stepmother provided for them, they would go to their mother’s grave and eat the pomelos which grew there on the tree.

Who acts: stepmother, children, pomelos · What happens: eat, provide, go, grow · To what, where: poor food, grave, pomelos, tree

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 (stepmother, children, pomelos), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	9 eating	cc
2	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	3 day	det
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 eating	obl:unmarked
4	after	after	ADP	_	5 this	case
5	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 day	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 eating	punct
7	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=SCONJ	9 eating	mark
8	of	of	ADP	_	7 instead	fixed
9	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 food	det
11	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 food	amod
12	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 eating	obj
13	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 stepmother	nmod:poss
14	stepmother	stepmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 provided	nsubj
15	provided	provide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 food	acl:relcl
16	for	for	ADP	_	17 them	case
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 provided	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 go	punct
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 go	nsubj
20	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 go	aux
21	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 eating	conj
22	to	to	ADP	_	26 grave	case
23	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 mother	nmod:poss
24	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 grave	nmod:poss
25	’s	's	PART	_	24 mother	case
26	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 go	obl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 eat	cc
28	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 go	conj
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 pomelos	det
30	pomelos	pomelo	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 eat	obj
31	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 grew	nsubj
32	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 pomelos	acl:relcl
33	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	32 grew	advmod
34	on	on	ADP	_	36 tree	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 tree	det
36	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 grew	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 eating	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	gerund		the poor food		day		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Patient
2	provide	past	children's stepmother	the poor food not said here			for children = child	vn ensure-99 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Precondition food=Theme for they=Beneficiary
3	go	would	children = child		children's mother's grave			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to grave=Initial_Location
4	eat	infinitive	children = child not said here	the pomelos				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pomelo=Patient
5	grow	past	the pomelos		the tree; there			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on tree=Location

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 3, sentence 51

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The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 3, sentence 51