The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 4, sentence 101
And with the child came good fortune, for from this time the old man found gold and precious stones in the notches of the bamboos when he cut them up, so that before long he was rich enough to retire, and he built a fine house in which they all lived very happily.
Who acts: old man, Heaven, men · What happens: come, find, cut up, be, retire, build · To what, where: good fortune, gold, notches, men, fine house
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 (old man, Heaven, men), 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 | _ | 5 came | cc |
| 2 | with | with | ADP | _ | 4 child | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 child | det |
| 4 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | obl |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 fortune | amod |
| 7 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 time | punct |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 time | case |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 time | case |
| 11 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 time | det |
| 12 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 found | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 man | det |
| 14 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 man | amod |
| 15 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 found | nsubj |
| 16 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 came | conj |
| 17 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 found | obj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 stones | cc |
| 19 | precious | precious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 stones | amod |
| 20 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 gold | conj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 notches | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 notches | det |
| 23 | notches | notch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 found | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 bamboos | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 bamboos | det |
| 26 | bamboos | bamboo | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 notches | nmod |
| 27 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 29 cut | advmod |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 cut | nsubj |
| 29 | cut | cut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 found | parataxis |
| 30 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 cut | obj |
| 31 | up | up | ADP | _ | 29 cut | compound:prt |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 rich | punct |
| 33 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 39 rich | mark |
| 34 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 39 rich | mark |
| 35 | before | before | ADV | _ | 36 long | advmod |
| 36 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 39 rich | advmod |
| 37 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 rich | nsubj |
| 38 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 rich | cop |
| 39 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 cut | conj |
| 40 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 39 rich | advmod |
| 41 | to | to | PART | _ | 42 retire | mark |
| 42 | retire | retire | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 39 rich | advcl |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 built | punct |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 built | cc |
| 45 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 built | nsubj |
| 46 | built | build | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 came | conj |
| 47 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 49 house | det |
| 48 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 house | amod |
| 49 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 built | obj |
| 50 | in | in | ADP | _ | 51 which | case |
| 51 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 54 lived | obl |
| 52 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 54 lived | nsubj |
| 53 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 54 lived | advmod |
| 54 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 49 house | acl:relcl |
| 55 | very | very | ADV | _ | 56 happily | advmod |
| 56 | happily | happily | ADV | _ | 54 lived | advmod |
| 57 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | good fortune | with the child | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location fortune=Theme | ||||
| 2 | find | past | the old man | gold and precious stones | the notches of the bamboos | time | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gold=Topic | ||
| 3 | cut up | past | Heaven | men = man | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Product | ||||
| 4 | is | past | Heaven | enough, long, rich property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | retire | to-infinitive | Heaven not said here | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | build | past | Heaven | a fine house | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Product | ||||
| 7 | live | past | men = man | a fine house | happily property | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in which=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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