The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 25, sentence 19
It is well-known that a wicked Genii will not come near a Chinese boy if he has some red silk braided in with his pigtail, or if he wears a silver chain around his neck, and all of them dread an old fishing-net.
Who acts: wicked Genii, Genii, red silk, all · What happens: know, not come, have, braid, wear, dread · To what, where: most, silver chain, neck, old fishing net · 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 (wicked Genii, Genii, red silk, all), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 known | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 known | aux:pass |
| 3 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 known | advmod |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 well | punct |
| 5 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 come | mark |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 Genii | det |
| 8 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Genii | amod |
| 9 | Genii | Genii | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 come | nsubj |
| 10 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 come | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 come | advmod |
| 12 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 known | ccomp |
| 13 | near | near | ADP | _ | 16 boy | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 boy | det |
| 15 | Chinese | Chinese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 boy | amod |
| 16 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 come | obl |
| 17 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 19 has | mark |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 has | nsubj |
| 19 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 come | advcl |
| 20 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 22 silk | det |
| 21 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 silk | amod |
| 22 | silk | silk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 braided | nsubj |
| 23 | braided | braid | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 has | ccomp |
| 24 | in | in | ADV | _ | 23 braided | advmod |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 pigtail | case |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 pigtail | nmod:poss |
| 27 | pigtail | pigtail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 braided | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 dread | punct |
| 29 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 44 dread | cc |
| 30 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 32 wears | mark |
| 31 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 wears | nsubj |
| 32 | wears | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 44 dread | advcl |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 chain | det |
| 34 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 chain | compound |
| 35 | chain | chain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 wears | obj |
| 36 | around | around | ADP | _ | 38 neck | case |
| 37 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 neck | nmod:poss |
| 38 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 chain | nmod |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 dread | punct |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 dread | cc |
| 41 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 44 dread | nsubj |
| 42 | of | of | ADP | _ | 43 them | case |
| 43 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 all | nmod |
| 44 | dread | dread | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 braided | conj |
| 45 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 49 net | det |
| 46 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 net | amod |
| 47 | fishing | fishing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 net | compound |
| 48 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 47 fishing | punct |
| 49 | net | net | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 dread | obj |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 known | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present · passive | most | well property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not come | future | a wicked Genii | near a Chinese boy | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near boy=Location | ||||
| 3 | have a condition, not said to happen | present | Genii | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | braid | past | some red silk | with Genii's pigtail | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | wear a condition, not said to happen | present | Genii | a silver chain | Genii's neck | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent chain=Source | |||
| 6 | dread | present | all of spirits | a old fishing net | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer net=Stimulus |
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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