The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 6, sentence 91
The musty rice-seed which he had given his brother, and which Musai had planted, also turned out well, for it flourished better than any of his own had done.
Who acts: loss · What happens: give, plant, turn out, flourish, do · To what, where: musty rice seed, any
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 (loss), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 seed | det |
| 2 | musty | musty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 seed | amod |
| 3 | rice | rice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 seed | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 rice | punct |
| 5 | seed | seed | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 given | nsubj |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 given | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 given | aux |
| 9 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 seed | acl:relcl |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 brother | nmod:poss |
| 11 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 given | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 planted | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 planted | cc |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 planted | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | Musai | Musai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 planted | nsubj |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 planted | aux |
| 17 | planted | plant | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 seed | parataxis |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 turned | punct |
| 19 | also | also | ADV | _ | 20 turned | advmod |
| 20 | turned | turn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 planted | conj |
| 21 | out | out | ADP | _ | 20 turned | compound:prt |
| 22 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 20 turned | advmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 flourished | punct |
| 24 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 26 flourished | mark |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 flourished | nsubj |
| 26 | flourished | flourish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 turned | conj |
| 27 | better | well | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 26 flourished | advmod |
| 28 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 34 done | mark |
| 29 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 34 done | nsubj:pass |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 own | case |
| 31 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 own | nmod:poss |
| 32 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 any | nmod |
| 33 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 done | aux |
| 34 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 better | advcl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 seed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past · perfect · passive | the musty rice seed | Musai nsubj:pass; Musai's brother obj | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient brother=Theme | ||||
| 2 | plant | past · perfect · passive | the musty rice seed | Musai nsubj | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 3 | turn out | participle | well property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | flourish | past | loss | well property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | do | past · perfect · passive | any of Musai's own | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
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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