The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 25, sentence 105

Pei-Hang crossed the stream, and was met by one of the Genii, who had come down from the snow-peak to see who had been playing tricks with the three mighty rivers.

Who acts: Pei, Genii · What happens: cross, meet, come down, see, play · To what, where: stream, snow peak, tricks · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Pei, Genii), 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	Pei	Pei	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 crossed	nsubj
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Pei	punct
3	Hang	Hang	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Pei	flat
4	crossed	cross	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 stream	det
6	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 crossed	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 met	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 met	cc
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 met	aux:pass
10	met	meet	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 crossed	parataxis
11	by	by	ADP	_	12 one	case
12	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 met	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 Genii	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Genii	det
15	Genii	Genii	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 one	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 come	punct
17	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 come	nsubj
18	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 come	aux
19	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 Genii	acl
20	down	down	ADV	_	19 come	advmod
21	from	from	ADP	_	25 peak	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 peak	det
23	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 peak	compound
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 snow	punct
25	peak	peak	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 come	obl
26	to	to	PART	_	27 see	mark
27	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 come	advcl
28	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 playing	nsubj
29	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 playing	aux
30	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	31 playing	aux
31	playing	play	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 see	ccomp
32	tricks	trick	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 playing	obj
33	with	with	ADP	_	37 rivers	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 rivers	det
35	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	37 rivers	nummod
36	mighty	mighty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 rivers	amod
37	rivers	river	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 playing	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 crossed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	cross	past	Pei	the stream			vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stream=Patient
2	meet	past · passive				by one of the Genii	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»
3	come down	past · perfect	the Genii		the snow peak	down property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from peak=Initial_Location
4	see	to-infinitive	the Genii not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	play	past · perfect · progressive		tricks		with the three mighty rivers; who nsubj	vn play-114.2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent trick=Theme with river=Co-Agent

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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🌲 The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 25, sentence 105

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The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 25, sentence 105