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title: Every morning he went into the woods in search of the lithe bamboo,… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: Every morning he went into the woods in search of the lithe bamboo, which he would split lengthwise or cut into joints, and these he would take home with him, and his wife would turn them into useful or ornamental articles for the household, and sell them. Who acts: Heaven, lithe bamboo, these, wife
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 4, sentence 96

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Every morning he went into the woods in search of the lithe bamboo, which he would split lengthwise or cut into joints, and these he would take home with him, and his wife would turn them into useful or ornamental articles for the household, and sell them.

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**Who acts:** Heaven, lithe bamboo, these, wife · **What happens:** go, split, cut, take, turn, sell · **To what, where:** woods, joints, useful articles, lithe bamboo

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This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Heaven, lithe bamboo, these, wife), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg65965:4:97
# text = Every morning he went into the woods in search of the lithe bamboo, which he would split lengthwise or cut into joints, and these he would take home with him, and his wife would turn them into useful or ornamental articles for the household, and sell them.
1	Every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	into	into	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	woods	wood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	search	search	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	lithe	lithe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	bamboo	bamboo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	split	split	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	acl:relcl	_	_
19	lengthwise	lengthwise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	xcomp	_	_
20	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	cut	cut	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	conj	_	_
22	into	into	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	joints	joint	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
26	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	29	nsubj	_	_
27	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
28	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
30	home	home	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
31	with	with	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
35	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nsubj	_	_
37	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
38	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	conj	_	_
39	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	obj	_	_
40	into	into	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
41	useful	useful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
42	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
43	ornamental	ornamental	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	conj	_	_
44	articles	article	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	obl	_	_
45	for	for	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	household	household	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
49	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
50	sell	sell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	conj	_	_
51	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	50	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | Heaven |  |  | the woods | morning | in search of the lithe bamboo | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into wood=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **split** | would | the lithe bamboo |  |  |  |  | Heaven *nsubj*; lengthwise *property* | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **cut** | participle | the lithe bamboo *not said here* |  |  |  |  | into joints | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent into joint=Patient |
| 4 | **take** | would | these |  |  |  |  | with Heaven; home *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **turn** | would | Heaven's wife | joints *= joint* |  | useful articles for the household |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent they=Theme into article=Trajectory |
| 6 | **sell** | infinitive | these *not said here* | joints *= joint* |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 7 | **search** |  |  | the lithe bamboo |  |  |  |  | nom search «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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.

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**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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