The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 6, sentence 84
He took it as a personal insult that the dead eggs he had let his brother have should hatch so well, so one day, when Musai was out, he went to his home, and cut every silkworm in two.
Who acts: strange, dead eggs, Musai · What happens: take, let, have, hatch, be, go · To what, where: fortune, dead eggs, home, silkworm, two
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 (strange, dead eggs, Musai), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 took | nsubj |
| 2 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 took | obj |
| 4 | as | as | ADP | _ | 7 insult | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 insult | det |
| 6 | personal | personal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 insult | amod |
| 7 | insult | insult | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 took | obl |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 let | mark |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 eggs | det |
| 10 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 eggs | amod |
| 11 | eggs | egg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 let | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 let | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 let | aux |
| 14 | let | let | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 hatch | advcl |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 brother | nmod:poss |
| 16 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 let | obj |
| 17 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 let | xcomp |
| 18 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 hatch | aux |
| 19 | hatch | hatch | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 took | parataxis |
| 20 | so | so | ADV | _ | 21 well | advmod |
| 21 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 19 hatch | advmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 out | punct |
| 23 | so | so | ADV | _ | 30 out | advmod |
| 24 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 day | nummod |
| 25 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 out | compound |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 day | punct |
| 27 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 30 out | advmod |
| 28 | Musai | Musai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 out | nsubj |
| 29 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 out | cop |
| 30 | out | out | ADV | _ | 2 took | advmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 went | punct |
| 32 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 went | nsubj |
| 33 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 took | conj |
| 34 | to | to | ADP | _ | 36 home | case |
| 35 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 home | nmod:poss |
| 36 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 went | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 cut | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 cut | cc |
| 39 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 took | parataxis |
| 40 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 41 silkworm | det |
| 41 | silkworm | silkworm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 cut | obj |
| 42 | in | in | ADP | _ | 43 two | case |
| 43 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 39 cut | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | strange | fortune | as a personal insult | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent it=Theme as insult=Attribute | |||
| 2 | let | past · perfect · passive | the dead eggs | strange nsubj:pass; strange's brother obj | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | have | present | the dead eggs not said here | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | hatch | should | well property | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.patient V PP.product»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 5 | is | past | Musai | out property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | go | past | Musai | strange's home | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to home=Initial_Location | ||||
| 7 | cut | participle | every silkworm | two | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset silkworm=Product |
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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