The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 8, sentence 15
“Many small things added together make a large one.
Who acts: Many small things · What happens: add, make · To what, where: Many small things, large one
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Many small things), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 make | punct |
| 2 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 things | amod |
| 3 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 things | amod |
| 4 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 make | nsubj |
| 5 | added | add | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 things | acl |
| 6 | together | together | ADV | _ | 5 added | advmod |
| 7 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 one | det |
| 9 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 one | amod |
| 10 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 make | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | add speech: assert in a quote | participle | Many small things not said here | together property | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | make in a quote | present | Many small things | a large one | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset one=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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