The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 5, sentence 87
The bamboo-cutter and his wife have taken good care of you, and to them we have given wealth.
Who acts: we, you · What happens: take, give, care · To what, where: bamboo cutter, wealth, watchers
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, you), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 cutter | det |
| 2 | bamboo | bamboo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cutter | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 bamboo | punct |
| 4 | cutter | cutter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 wife | cc |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 wife | nmod:poss |
| 7 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cutter | conj |
| 8 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 taken | aux |
| 9 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 care | amod |
| 11 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 taken | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 you | case |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 care | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 given | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 given | cc |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 them | case |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 given | obl |
| 18 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 given | nsubj |
| 19 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 given | aux |
| 20 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 taken | conj |
| 21 | wealth | wealth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 given | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 taken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | present · perfect · passive | the bamboo cutter and cutter's wife | good care of you obj | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme care=Destination | ||||
| 2 | give | present · perfect | we | wealth | watchers = watcher | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent wealth=Theme to they=Recipient | |||
| 3 | care | you | nom care «act intransitive»: of=agent |
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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