The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 2, sentence 94
So, without either of them having seen the other, much kindness was shown on both sides.
What happens: see, show · To what, where: either, other much kindness, sides
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 2. 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 8 seen | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 seen | punct |
| 3 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 8 seen | mark |
| 4 | either | either | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 seen | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 them | case |
| 6 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 either | nmod |
| 7 | having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 seen | aux |
| 8 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 kindness | det |
| 10 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 kindness | amod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 other | punct |
| 12 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 kindness | amod |
| 13 | kindness | kindness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 shown | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 shown | aux:pass |
| 15 | shown | show | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 seen | conj |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 sides | case |
| 17 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 sides | det |
| 18 | sides | side | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 shown | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 seen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | gerund · perfect · passive | either of MERCHANTS | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | show | past · passive | the other much kindness | both sides | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
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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