The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 3, sentence 63
She replied that there was only one thing that would cure her, and that was to boil a fine pomelo tree, root and branch, that grew on his dead wife’s grave, and to put some of the water in which it had been boiled on her forehead.
Who acts: Balna, one thing, that · What happens: reply, be, cure, grow, put, boil · To what, where: Balna, grave, some, tree · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Balna, one thing, that), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 replied | nsubj |
| 2 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 5 was | mark |
| 4 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 5 was | expl |
| 5 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 replied | ccomp |
| 6 | only | only | ADV | _ | 8 thing | advmod |
| 7 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 thing | nummod |
| 8 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 was | nsubj |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 cure | nsubj |
| 10 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 cure | aux |
| 11 | cure | cure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 thing | acl:relcl |
| 12 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 cure | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 boil | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 boil | cc |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 boil | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 boil | cop |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 boil | mark |
| 18 | boil | boil | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 replied | conj |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 tree | det |
| 20 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 tree | amod |
| 21 | pomelo | pomelo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 tree | compound |
| 22 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 boil | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 root | punct |
| 24 | root | root | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 tree | conj |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 branch | cc |
| 26 | branch | branch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 tree | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 grew | punct |
| 28 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 grew | nsubj |
| 29 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 tree | conj |
| 30 | on | on | ADP | _ | 35 grave | case |
| 31 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 wife | nmod:poss |
| 32 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 wife | amod |
| 33 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 grave | nmod:poss |
| 34 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 33 wife | case |
| 35 | grave | grave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 grew | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 put | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 put | cc |
| 38 | to | to | PART | _ | 39 put | mark |
| 39 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 boil | conj |
| 40 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 39 put | obj |
| 41 | of | of | ADP | _ | 43 water | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 water | det |
| 43 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 some | nmod |
| 44 | in | in | ADP | _ | 45 which | case |
| 45 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 49 boiled | obl |
| 46 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 49 boiled | nsubj:pass |
| 47 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 49 boiled | aux |
| 48 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 49 boiled | aux:pass |
| 49 | boiled | boil | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 43 water | acl:relcl |
| 50 | on | on | ADP | _ | 52 forehead | case |
| 51 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 52 forehead | nmod:poss |
| 52 | forehead | forehead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 boiled | obl |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | Balna | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | be | past | one thing | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | cure | would | one thing | Balna | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer she=Source | ||||
| 4 | is | past | that | a fine pomelo tree and root and branch obj; boil property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | grow | past | that | thing's dead wife's grave | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on grave=Location | ||||
| 6 | put | to-infinitive | that not said here | some of the water | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent some=Goal | ||||
| 7 | boil | past · perfect · passive | tree | on Balna's forehead; in the water | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient in which=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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