The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 6, sentence 80
Now, Chô hated to lend anyone anything, but he didn’t see how he could very well refuse his brother’s request, so he picked out some musty rice-seed and dead eggs, and gave them to him, feeling sure that they were worthless.
Who acts: Chô, seed, brother · What happens: hate, lend, not see, refuse, pick out, give · To what, where: anything, request, musty rice seed, seed · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Chô, seed, brother), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 hated | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Now | punct |
| 3 | Chô | Chô | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 hated | nsubj |
| 4 | hated | hate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 lend | mark |
| 6 | lend | lend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 hated | xcomp |
| 7 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 8 anything | compound |
| 8 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 6 lend | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 see | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 see | cc |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 see | nsubj |
| 12 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 see | aux |
| 13 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 see | advmod |
| 14 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 hated | conj |
| 15 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 20 refuse | advmod |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 refuse | nsubj |
| 17 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 refuse | aux |
| 18 | very | very | ADV | _ | 19 well | advmod |
| 19 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 20 refuse | advmod |
| 20 | refuse | refuse | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 see | ccomp |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 brother | nmod:poss |
| 22 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 request | nmod:poss |
| 23 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 22 brother | case |
| 24 | request | request | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 refuse | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 picked | punct |
| 26 | so | so | ADV | _ | 28 picked | advmod |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 picked | nsubj |
| 28 | picked | pick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 hated | conj |
| 29 | out | out | ADP | _ | 28 picked | compound:prt |
| 30 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 34 seed | det |
| 31 | musty | musty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 seed | amod |
| 32 | rice | rice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 seed | compound |
| 33 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 32 rice | punct |
| 34 | seed | seed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 picked | obj |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 eggs | cc |
| 36 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 eggs | amod |
| 37 | eggs | egg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 seed | conj |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 gave | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 gave | cc |
| 40 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 hated | parataxis |
| 41 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 gave | iobj |
| 42 | to | to | ADP | _ | 43 him | case |
| 43 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 gave | obl |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 feeling | punct |
| 45 | feeling | feel | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 40 gave | conj |
| 46 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 feeling | xcomp |
| 47 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 50 worthless | mark |
| 48 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 50 worthless | nsubj |
| 49 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 50 worthless | cop |
| 50 | worthless | worthless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 sure | ccomp |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 hated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hate | past | Chô | now | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | lend not said to happen | to-infinitive | Chô not said here | anything | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not see | past · do-support | Chô | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | refuse | could | Chô | Chô's brother's request | well property | vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent request=Theme | |||
| 5 | pick out | past | Chô | some musty rice seed and dead eggs | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seed=Patient | ||||
| 6 | give | past | seed | to Chô | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Theme to he=Recipient | ||||
| 7 | feel | gerund | sure property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 8 | is | past | seed | worthless property | tree rules | ||||
| 9 | request | Chô's brother | nom request «communication transitive»: poss=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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