The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 4, sentence 6
They could do nothing, and gave up all hopes of ever seeing their kind husbands and their sister and her husband again, and so devoted themselves to the care and teaching of their little nephew.
Who acts: servants, hopes · What happens: do, give up, see, teach · To what, where: nothing, hopes, kind husbands, little nephew
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 (servants, hopes), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 do | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 do | aux |
| 3 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 3 do | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 gave | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 gave | cc |
| 7 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 do | conj |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 gave | compound:prt |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 hopes | det |
| 10 | hopes | hope | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 gave | obj |
| 11 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 13 seeing | mark |
| 12 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 13 seeing | advmod |
| 13 | seeing | see | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 hopes | acl |
| 14 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 husbands | nmod:poss |
| 15 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 husbands | compound |
| 16 | husbands | husband | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 seeing | obj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 sister | cc |
| 18 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 sister | nmod:poss |
| 19 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 husbands | conj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 husband | cc |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 husband | nmod:poss |
| 22 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 husbands | conj |
| 23 | again | again | ADV | _ | 13 seeing | advmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 devoted | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 devoted | cc |
| 26 | so | so | ADV | _ | 27 devoted | advmod |
| 27 | devoted | devoted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 gave | conj |
| 28 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 27 devoted | obl |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 care | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 care | det |
| 31 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 devoted | obl |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 teaching | cc |
| 33 | teaching | teaching | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 care | conj |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 nephew | case |
| 35 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 nephew | nmod:poss |
| 36 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 nephew | amod |
| 37 | nephew | nephew | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 teaching | nmod |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | could | servants = servant | nothing | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | give up | past | servants = servant not said here | all hopes | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hope=Source | ||||
| 3 | see | gerund | all hopes not said here | servants's kind husbands and servants's sister and dog's husband | ever; again | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer husband=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | teach | servants's little nephew | nom teaching «act 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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