The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 25, sentence 69
Pei-Hang was not a bad match, for his parents were well-off, and he was their only child; but Yun-Ying was a very pretty girl and a mandarin of Chang-ngan was anxious to marry her.
Who acts: Pei, parents, Yun, pretty girl · What happens: not be, be, marry · To what, where: bad match, only child, pretty girl, Ying
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, parents, Yun, pretty girl), 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 | 8 match | nsubj |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Pei | punct |
| 3 | Hang | Hang | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Pei | flat |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 match | cop |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 match | advmod |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 match | det |
| 7 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 match | amod |
| 8 | match | match | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 child | punct |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 off | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 parents | nmod:poss |
| 12 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 off | nsubj |
| 13 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 off | cop |
| 14 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 16 off | advmod |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 off | punct |
| 16 | off | off | ADV | _ | 23 child | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 child | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 child | cc |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 child | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 child | cop |
| 21 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 child | nmod:poss |
| 22 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 child | amod |
| 23 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 match | conj |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 33 girl | punct |
| 25 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 33 girl | cc |
| 26 | Yun | Yun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 girl | nsubj |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 Yun | punct |
| 28 | Ying | Ying | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Yun | flat |
| 29 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 girl | cop |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 girl | det |
| 31 | very | very | ADV | _ | 32 pretty | advmod |
| 32 | pretty | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 girl | amod |
| 33 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 anxious | nsubj |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 mandarin | cc |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 mandarin | det |
| 36 | mandarin | mandarin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 girl | conj |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 ngan | case |
| 38 | Chang | Chang | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 ngan | compound |
| 39 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 38 Chang | punct |
| 40 | ngan | ngan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 mandarin | nmod |
| 41 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 anxious | cop |
| 42 | anxious | anxious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 match | acl:relcl |
| 43 | to | to | PART | _ | 44 marry | mark |
| 44 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 42 anxious | xcomp |
| 45 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 marry | obj |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 match | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | past | Pei | a bad match and parents's only child | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | Pei's parents | off, well property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | Pei | parents's only child | parents = parent nmod:poss | tree rules | |||
| 4 | is a | past | Yun | a pretty girl and a mandarin of Chang ngan | a mandarin of Chang ngan conj | tree rules | |||
| 5 | is | past | a pretty girl and a mandarin of Chang ngan | a bad match and parents's only child not said here | anxious property | tree rules | |||
| 6 | marry | to-infinitive | a pretty girl and a mandarin of Chang ngan not said here | Ying | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient |
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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