The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 25, sentence 18
Of course, there were some good Genii too, but most of them were very much the opposite, and Pei-Hang’s mother took every precaution against them.
Who acts: good Genii, most, mother · What happens: be, take · To what, where: opposite, precaution
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 (good Genii, most, mother), 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 | Of | of | SCONJ | _ | 5 were | mark |
| 2 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Of | fixed |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Of | punct |
| 4 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 5 were | expl |
| 5 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 took | advcl |
| 6 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 Genii | det |
| 7 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Genii | amod |
| 8 | Genii | Genii | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 were | nsubj |
| 9 | too | too | ADV | _ | 8 Genii | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 opposite | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 opposite | cc |
| 12 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 19 opposite | nsubj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 them | case |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 most | nmod |
| 15 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 opposite | cop |
| 16 | very | very | ADV | _ | 17 much | advmod |
| 17 | much | much | ADV | _ | 19 opposite | advmod |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 opposite | det |
| 19 | opposite | opposite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Genii | appos |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 took | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 took | cc |
| 22 | Pei | Pei | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Hang | compound |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 Pei | punct |
| 24 | Hang | Hang | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 mother | nmod:poss |
| 25 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 24 Hang | case |
| 26 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 took | nsubj |
| 27 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 28 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 29 precaution | det |
| 29 | precaution | precaution | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 took | obj |
| 30 | against | against | ADP | _ | 31 them | case |
| 31 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 precaution | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 27 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | some good Genii | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | most of spirits | the opposite | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | take | past | Pei Hang's mother | every precaution | against spirits = spirit | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent precaution=Theme against they=Destination |
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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