The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 5, sentence 94
Sorrowful as were the old bamboo-cutter and his wife, yet were they full of gratitude for having known the love of a daughter, who, while not with them in the body, would always dwell with them in spirit.
Who acts: warriors, love · What happens: be, have, know, dwell, love · To what, where: old bamboo cutter, love, spirit, daughter
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 (warriors, love), 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 | Sorrowful | sorrowful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 8 cutter | mark |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 cutter | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 cutter | det |
| 5 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 cutter | amod |
| 6 | bamboo | bamboo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 cutter | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 bamboo | punct |
| 8 | cutter | cutter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Sorrowful | advcl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 wife | cc |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 wife | nmod:poss |
| 11 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 cutter | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 full | punct |
| 13 | yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 16 full | cc |
| 14 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 full | cop |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 full | nsubj |
| 16 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Sorrowful | conj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 gratitude | case |
| 18 | gratitude | gratitude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 full | obl |
| 19 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 20 having | mark |
| 20 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 full | advcl |
| 21 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 having | xcomp |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 love | det |
| 23 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 known | obj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 daughter | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 daughter | det |
| 26 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 love | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 dwell | punct |
| 28 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 40 dwell | nsubj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 them | punct |
| 30 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 33 them | mark |
| 31 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 33 them | advmod |
| 32 | with | with | ADP | _ | 33 them | case |
| 33 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 who | conj |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 body | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 body | det |
| 36 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 them | nmod |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 who | punct |
| 38 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 40 dwell | aux |
| 39 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 40 dwell | advmod |
| 40 | dwell | dwell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 love | parataxis |
| 41 | with | with | ADP | _ | 42 them | case |
| 42 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 dwell | obl |
| 43 | in | in | ADP | _ | 44 spirit | case |
| 44 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 dwell | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Sorrowful | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the old bamboo cutter and cutter's wife | cutter's wife conj | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | warriors = warrior | of gratitude; full property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | have | gerund | warriors = warrior not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | know | participle | warriors = warrior not said here | the love of a daughter | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer love=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | dwell | would | the love of a daughter | spirit | with warriors = warrior; always property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in spirit=Location | |||
| 7 | love | a daughter | 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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