The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 4, sentence 96

Every morning he went into the woods in search of the lithe bamboo, which he would split lengthwise or cut into joints, and these he would take home with him, and his wife would turn them into useful or ornamental articles for the household, and sell them.

Who acts: Heaven, lithe bamboo, these, wife · What happens: go, split, cut, take, turn, sell · To what, where: woods, joints, useful articles, lithe bamboo

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, lithe bamboo, these, wife), 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	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	2 morning	det
2	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	obl:unmarked
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	into	into	ADP	_	7 woods	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 woods	det
7	woods	wood	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 went	obl
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 search	case
9	search	search	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	13 bamboo	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 bamboo	det
12	lithe	lithe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 bamboo	amod
13	bamboo	bamboo	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 search	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 split	punct
15	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 split	nsubj
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 split	nsubj
17	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 split	aux
18	split	split	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 bamboo	acl:relcl
19	lengthwise	lengthwise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 split	xcomp
20	or	or	CCONJ	_	21 cut	cc
21	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 lengthwise	conj
22	into	into	ADP	_	23 joints	case
23	joints	joint	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 cut	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 take	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 take	cc
26	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	29 take	nsubj
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 take	nsubj
28	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 take	aux
29	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 went	parataxis
30	home	home	ADV	_	29 take	advmod
31	with	with	ADP	_	32 him	case
32	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 take	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 turn	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 turn	cc
35	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 wife	nmod:poss
36	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 turn	nsubj
37	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 turn	aux
38	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 take	conj
39	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 turn	obj
40	into	into	ADP	_	44 articles	case
41	useful	useful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 articles	amod
42	or	or	CCONJ	_	43 ornamental	cc
43	ornamental	ornamental	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 useful	conj
44	articles	article	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 turn	obl
45	for	for	ADP	_	47 household	case
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 household	det
47	household	household	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 articles	nmod
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 sell	punct
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 sell	cc
50	sell	sell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 take	conj
51	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 sell	obj
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	Heaven		the woods	morning	in search of the lithe bamboo	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into wood=Initial_Location
2	split	would	the lithe bamboo				Heaven nsubj; lengthwise property	vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	cut	participle	the lithe bamboo not said here				into joints	vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent into joint=Patient
4	take	would	these				with Heaven; home property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	turn	would	Heaven's wife	joints = joint	useful articles for the household			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent they=Theme into article=Trajectory
6	sell	infinitive	these not said here	joints = joint				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
7	search			the lithe bamboo				nom search «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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🌲 The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 4, sentence 96

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The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 4, sentence 96