The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 22, sentence 105
At last he found a woman, a very, very old woman, who told him that when she was a tiny girl she remembered her grand-mother saying how, when _she_ was a tiny girl, a poor young man had been spirited away by the Genii of the mountains on the day of the Feast of Lanterns, leaving his wife and little children with only a few handfuls of rice in the house.
Who acts: Wang, old woman, woman, tiny girl, Genii · What happens: find, tell, be, remember, say, spirit away · To what, where: woman, last, Wang, tiny girl, grand mother, poor young man · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wang, old woman, woman, tiny girl), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 found | obl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 found | nsubj |
| 4 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 woman | det |
| 6 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 found | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 woman | punct |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 woman | det |
| 9 | very | very | ADV | _ | 12 old | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 very | punct |
| 11 | very | very | ADV | _ | 12 old | advmod |
| 12 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 woman | amod |
| 13 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 woman | appos |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 told | punct |
| 15 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 told | nsubj |
| 16 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 woman | acl:relcl |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 told | iobj |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 26 remembered | mark |
| 19 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 24 girl | advmod |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 girl | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 girl | cop |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 girl | det |
| 23 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 girl | amod |
| 24 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 remembered | nsubj |
| 25 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 remembered | nsubj |
| 26 | remembered | remember | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 told | advcl |
| 27 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 mother | nmod:poss |
| 28 | grand | grand | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 mother | amod |
| 29 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 28 grand | punct |
| 30 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 remembered | obj |
| 31 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 26 remembered | advcl |
| 32 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 31 saying | advmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 girl | punct |
| 34 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 41 girl | advmod |
| 35 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 36 she | punct |
| 36 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 girl | nsubj |
| 37 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 36 she | punct |
| 38 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 girl | cop |
| 39 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 41 girl | det |
| 40 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 girl | amod |
| 41 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 found | advcl |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 spirited | punct |
| 43 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 46 man | det |
| 44 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 man | amod |
| 45 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 man | amod |
| 46 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 spirited | nsubj:pass |
| 47 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 49 spirited | aux |
| 48 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 49 spirited | aux:pass |
| 49 | spirited | spirit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 41 girl | conj |
| 50 | away | away | ADV | _ | 49 spirited | advmod |
| 51 | by | by | ADP | _ | 53 Genii | case |
| 52 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 53 Genii | det |
| 53 | Genii | Genii | PROPN | Number=Sing | 49 spirited | obl |
| 54 | of | of | ADP | _ | 56 mountains | case |
| 55 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 56 mountains | det |
| 56 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 53 Genii | nmod |
| 57 | on | on | ADP | _ | 59 day | case |
| 58 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 59 day | det |
| 59 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 spirited | obl |
| 60 | of | of | ADP | _ | 62 Feast | case |
| 61 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 62 Feast | det |
| 62 | Feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 59 day | nmod |
| 63 | of | of | ADP | _ | 64 Lanterns | case |
| 64 | Lanterns | lantern | NOUN | Number=Plur | 62 Feast | nmod |
| 65 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 66 leaving | punct |
| 66 | leaving | leave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 49 spirited | advcl |
| 67 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 68 wife | nmod:poss |
| 68 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 66 leaving | obj |
| 69 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 71 children | cc |
| 70 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 71 children | amod |
| 71 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 68 wife | conj |
| 72 | with | with | ADP | _ | 76 handfuls | case |
| 73 | only | only | ADV | _ | 76 handfuls | advmod |
| 74 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 76 handfuls | det |
| 75 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 76 handfuls | amod |
| 76 | handfuls | handful | NOUN | Number=Plur | 66 leaving | obl |
| 77 | of | of | ADP | _ | 78 rice | case |
| 78 | rice | rice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 76 handfuls | nmod |
| 79 | in | in | ADP | _ | 81 house | case |
| 80 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 81 house | det |
| 81 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 66 leaving | obl |
| 82 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | Wang | a woman | last | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent woman=Theme at last=Asset | |||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | a old woman | Wang | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | woman | a tiny girl | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | remember | past | a tiny girl | girl's grand mother | girl nsubj | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent mother=Theme | |||
| 5 | say speech: assert | gerund | a tiny girl not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | is a | past | woman | a tiny girl | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | spirit away | past · perfect · passive | the Genii of the mountains | a poor young man | day | away property | tree rules | ||
| 8 | leave | gerund | the Genii of the mountains not said here | Wang's wife and little children | the house | with a few handfuls of rice | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent wife=Theme in house=Location |
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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