The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 25, sentence 107
But first I must find the home of the Genii, and get a pestle and mortar of jade for my future mother-in-law to pound magic drugs in.”
Who acts: I · What happens: find, get · To what, where: home, pestle
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 (I), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 find | cc |
| 2 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 find | advmod |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 find | nsubj |
| 4 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 find | aux |
| 5 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 home | det |
| 7 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 find | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Genii | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Genii | det |
| 10 | Genii | Genii | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 home | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 get | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 get | cc |
| 13 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 find | conj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 pestle | det |
| 15 | pestle | pestle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 get | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 mortar | cc |
| 17 | mortar | mortar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 pestle | conj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 jade | case |
| 19 | jade | jade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 mortar | nmod |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 mother | case |
| 21 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 mother | nmod:poss |
| 22 | future | future | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 mother | amod |
| 23 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 get | obl |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 27 law | punct |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 law | case |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 in | punct |
| 27 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 mother | nmod |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 drugs | mark |
| 29 | pound | pound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 magic | compound |
| 30 | magic | magic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 drugs | compound |
| 31 | drugs | drug | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 in | nsubj |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 law | acl:relcl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 find | punct |
| 34 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 find | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | must | I | the home of the Genii | first property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent home=Topic | |||
| 2 | get | infinitive | I not said here | a pestle and mortar of jade | for my future mother in law | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent pestle=Theme for mother=Beneficiary |
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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