The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 25, sentence 17

His father and mother loved him dearly, and did all they could to shield him from the power of the evil Genii, or spirits, of whom there were a great many in China.

Who acts: father · What happens: love, do, shield · To what, where: Hang, all, power

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 (father), 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 father	nmod:poss
2	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 loved	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 mother	cc
4	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 father	conj
5	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 loved	obj
7	dearly	dearly	ADV	_	5 loved	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 did	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 did	cc
10	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 loved	conj
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 did	obj
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 could	nsubj
13	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 all	nmod
14	to	to	PART	_	15 shield	mark
15	shield	shield	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 did	advcl
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 shield	obj
17	from	from	ADP	_	19 power	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 power	det
19	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 shield	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 evil	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 evil	det
22	evil	evil	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 power	nmod
23	Genii	Genii	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 evil	appos
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 spirits	punct
25	or	or	CCONJ	_	26 spirits	cc
26	spirits	spirit	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 loved	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 whom	punct
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 whom	case
29	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 loved	parataxis
30	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	31 were	expl
31	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 whom	acl:relcl
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 China	det
33	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 China	amod
34	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 China	amod
35	in	in	ADP	_	36 China	case
36	China	China	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 were	nsubj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 loved	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	love	past	Hang's father and mother	Hang		spirits obl; whom parataxis; dearly property	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
2	do	past	Hang's father and mother not said here	all			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Eventuality
3	shield	to-infinitive	Hang's father and mother not said here	Hang	the power of the evil		tree rules

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 17

The tree

Pragmatics

The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 25, sentence 17