The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 7, sentence 1
Chô made up his mind to get another such paper bag for himself, so he took some of Musai’s rice-seed, planted it, and waited impatiently for it to grow.
Who acts: Chô · What happens: make up, get, take, plant, wait, grow · To what, where: mind, such paper bag, some, bag
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Chô), 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 | Chô | Chô | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 made | nsubj |
| 2 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 made | compound:prt |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 mind | nmod:poss |
| 5 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 made | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 get | mark |
| 7 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 made | advcl |
| 8 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 bag | det |
| 9 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 bag | amod |
| 10 | paper | paper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 bag | compound |
| 11 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 get | obj |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 himself | case |
| 13 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 7 get | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 took | punct |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 took | advmod |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 took | nsubj |
| 17 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 made | parataxis |
| 18 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 17 took | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 seed | case |
| 20 | Musai | Musai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 seed | nmod:poss |
| 21 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 20 Musai | case |
| 22 | rice | rice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 seed | compound |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 rice | punct |
| 24 | seed | seed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 some | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 planted | punct |
| 26 | planted | plant | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 took | conj |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 planted | obj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 waited | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 waited | cc |
| 30 | waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 made | parataxis |
| 31 | impatiently | impatiently | ADV | _ | 30 waited | advmod |
| 32 | for | for | ADP | _ | 33 it | case |
| 33 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 waited | obl |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 grow | mark |
| 35 | grow | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 waited | advcl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make up | past | Chô | Chô's mind | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mind=Pivot | ||||
| 2 | get | to-infinitive | Chô not said here | another such paper bag | for Chô | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent bag=Theme for himself=Source | |||
| 3 | take | past | Chô | some of Musai's rice seed | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Theme | ||||
| 4 | plant | past | Chô not said here | bag | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 5 | wait | past | for bag; impatiently property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | grow | to-infinitive | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 7 | mind | Chô | nom mind «cognition 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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