The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 4, sentence 100
So, very carefully he took the exquisite little creature home to his wife, and both of them were filled with joy because there was now a child, come to them in a most marvelous manner, upon whom they could devote the love of their old age.
Who acts: Heaven, child, children · What happens: take, fill, be, come, devote, love · To what, where: exquisite little creature, wife, both, children, marvelous manner, love
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Heaven, child, 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 6 took | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 So | punct |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 carefully | advmod |
| 4 | carefully | carefully | ADV | _ | 6 took | advmod |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 took | nsubj |
| 6 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 creature | det |
| 8 | exquisite | exquisite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 creature | amod |
| 9 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 creature | amod |
| 10 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 took | obj |
| 11 | home | home | ADV | _ | 6 took | advmod |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 wife | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 wife | nmod:poss |
| 14 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 took | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 filled | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 filled | cc |
| 17 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 filled | nsubj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 them | case |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 both | nmod |
| 20 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 filled | aux:pass |
| 21 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 took | conj |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 joy | case |
| 23 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 filled | obl |
| 24 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 26 was | mark |
| 25 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 26 was | expl |
| 26 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 filled | advcl |
| 27 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 29 child | advmod |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 child | det |
| 29 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 was | nsubj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 come | punct |
| 31 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 took | parataxis |
| 32 | to | to | ADP | _ | 33 them | case |
| 33 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 come | obl |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 38 manner | case |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 manner | det |
| 36 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 37 marvelous | advmod |
| 37 | marvelous | marvelous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 manner | amod |
| 38 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 come | obl |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 devote | punct |
| 40 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 41 whom | case |
| 41 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 44 devote | obl |
| 42 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 devote | nsubj |
| 43 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 44 devote | aux |
| 44 | devote | devote | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 come | conj |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 love | det |
| 46 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 devote | obj |
| 47 | of | of | ADP | _ | 50 age | case |
| 48 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 50 age | nmod:poss |
| 49 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 50 age | amod |
| 50 | age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 love | nmod |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Heaven | the exquisite little creature | Heaven's wife | carefully, home property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent creature=Theme to wife=Destination | ||
| 2 | fill | past · passive | both of children | with joy | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with joy=Instrument | ||||
| 3 | be | past | a child | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | come | infinitive | children = child | a marvelous manner | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to they=Initial_Location | ||||
| 5 | devote | could | children = child | the love of children's old age | whom obl | vn dedicate-79 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent love=Theme | |||
| 6 | love | children's old age | nom love «feeling transitive»: of=patient |
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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