The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 6, sentence 87
Now he had twice as many silkworms as before, and they spun double the amount of silk that he had expected; so his brother Chô had really done him a good turn when he tried to ruin him.
Who acts: Musai, silkworms, silk, brother · What happens: have, spin, double, expect, do, try · To what, where: many silkworms, amount, Musai, silk
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 (Musai, silkworms, silk, 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 | 3 had | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | twice | twice | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 6 many | advmod |
| 5 | as | as | ADV | _ | 6 many | advmod |
| 6 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 silkworms | amod |
| 7 | silkworms | silkworm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 had | obj |
| 8 | as | as | ADV | _ | 9 before | advmod |
| 9 | before | before | ADV | _ | 3 had | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 spun | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 spun | cc |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 spun | nsubj |
| 13 | spun | spin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 had | conj |
| 14 | double | double | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 spun | xcomp |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 amount | det |
| 16 | amount | amount | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 double | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 silk | case |
| 18 | silk | silk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 amount | nmod |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 expected | mark |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 expected | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 expected | aux |
| 22 | expected | expect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 silk | acl |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 done | punct |
| 24 | so | so | ADV | _ | 30 done | advmod |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 brother | nmod:poss |
| 26 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 done | nsubj |
| 27 | Chô | Chô | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 brother | appos |
| 28 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 done | aux |
| 29 | really | really | ADV | _ | 30 done | advmod |
| 30 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 had | parataxis |
| 31 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 done | obj |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 turn | det |
| 33 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 turn | amod |
| 34 | turn | turn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 done | obj |
| 35 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 37 tried | advmod |
| 36 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 tried | nsubj |
| 37 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 done | advcl |
| 38 | to | to | PART | _ | 39 ruin | mark |
| 39 | ruin | ruin | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 tried | xcomp |
| 40 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 ruin | obj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Musai | many silkworms | now | before property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent silkworm=Patient | ||
| 2 | spin | past | silkworms = silkworm | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | double | infinitive | silkworms = silkworm not said here | the amount of silk | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent amount=Patient | ||||
| 4 | expect | past · perfect · passive | silk not said here | Musai | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 5 | do | past · perfect | Musai's brother | Musai | a good turn obj | tree rules | |||
| 6 | try | past | Musai | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 7 | ruin not said to happen | to-infinitive | Musai not said here | Musai | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | ||||
| 8 | amount | silk | nom amount «possession 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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