The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 1, sentence 89
Most of those from India are adapted from “The Hitopadesa,” which is also known as “The Book of Good Counsels,” and “The Criterion of Wisdom.”
What happens: adapt, know · To what, where: Most, Hitopadesa
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 7 adapted | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 those | case |
| 3 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 1 Most | nmod |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 India | case |
| 5 | India | India | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 those | nmod |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 adapted | aux:pass |
| 7 | adapted | adapt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 17 known | mark |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 known | punct |
| 10 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Hitopadesa | det |
| 11 | Hitopadesa | Hitopadesa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 known | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Hitopadesa | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 Hitopadesa | punct |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 known | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 known | aux:pass |
| 16 | also | also | ADV | _ | 17 known | advmod |
| 17 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 adapted | advcl |
| 18 | as | as | ADP | _ | 21 Book | case |
| 19 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 Book | punct |
| 20 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Book | det |
| 21 | Book | Book | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 known | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 Counsels | case |
| 23 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 Counsels | amod |
| 24 | Counsels | counsel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 Book | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 Counsels | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 Book | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 Criterion | cc |
| 28 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 30 Criterion | punct |
| 29 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 Criterion | det |
| 30 | Criterion | Criterion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Book | conj |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 Wisdom | case |
| 32 | Wisdom | Wisdom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 Criterion | nmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 30 Criterion | punct |
| 34 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 adapted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | adapt | present · passive | Most of those from India | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 2 | know | present · passive | the Hitopadesa | as the Book of Good Counsels and the Criterion of Wisdom; which nsubj:pass | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus as book=Attribute |
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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