The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 6, sentence 88
Musai began to prosper, much to the disgust of Chô, who proceeded to cut all of his own silkworms in half, thinking that of course the same good fortune would be his.
Who acts: Musai, disgust · What happens: begin, prosper, proceed, cut, think, be · To what, where: all, Musai, Chô
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, disgust), 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 | Musai | Musai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 began | nsubj |
| 2 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 prosper | mark |
| 4 | prosper | prosper | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 began | xcomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 disgust | punct |
| 6 | much | much | ADV | _ | 9 disgust | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 disgust | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 disgust | det |
| 9 | disgust | disgust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 prosper | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Chô | case |
| 11 | Chô | Chô | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 disgust | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 proceeded | punct |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 proceeded | nsubj |
| 14 | proceeded | proceed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 disgust | conj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 cut | mark |
| 16 | cut | cut | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 proceeded | xcomp |
| 17 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 cut | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 silkworms | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 silkworms | nmod:poss |
| 20 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 silkworms | amod |
| 21 | silkworms | silkworm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 all | nmod |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 half | case |
| 23 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 21 silkworms | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 thinking | punct |
| 25 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 proceeded | advcl |
| 26 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 32 fortune | mark |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 fortune | case |
| 28 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 of | fixed |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 fortune | det |
| 30 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 fortune | amod |
| 31 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 fortune | amod |
| 32 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 thinking | ccomp |
| 33 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 his | aux |
| 34 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 35 his | cop |
| 35 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 fortune | nmod:poss |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | Musai | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | prosper | to-infinitive | Musai not said here | to the disgust of Chô | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | proceed | past | the disgust of Chô | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | cut | to-infinitive | the disgust of Chô not said here | all of Musai's own silkworms in half | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset all=Product | ||||
| 5 | think speech: other | gerund | the disgust of Chô not said here | Musai's same good fortune ccomp | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | is a | would | Musai | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | disgust | Chô | nom disgust «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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