The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 25, sentence 77
“No, you cannot,” said the old woman, “because it is a pestle and mortar of jade, and you can only get another one from the home of the Genii, which is on a mountain above the Lake of Gems.
Who acts: old woman, cord, you, home · What happens: say, be, get · To what, where: pestle, one, home, mountain · 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 (old woman, cord, you, home), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 2 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 5 can | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 can | nsubj |
| 5 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | ccomp |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 can | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 can | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 can | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 woman | det |
| 11 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 woman | amod |
| 12 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 pestle | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 pestle | punct |
| 15 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 19 pestle | mark |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 pestle | nsubj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 pestle | cop |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 pestle | det |
| 19 | pestle | pestle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 woman | appos |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 mortar | cc |
| 21 | mortar | mortar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 pestle | conj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 jade | case |
| 23 | jade | jade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 mortar | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 get | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 get | cc |
| 26 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 29 get | nsubj |
| 27 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 get | aux |
| 28 | only | only | ADV | _ | 29 get | advmod |
| 29 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | conj |
| 30 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 31 one | det |
| 31 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 get | obj |
| 32 | from | from | ADP | _ | 34 home | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 home | det |
| 34 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 get | obl |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 Genii | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 Genii | det |
| 37 | Genii | Genii | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 home | nmod |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 mountain | punct |
| 39 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 43 mountain | nsubj |
| 40 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 43 mountain | cop |
| 41 | on | on | ADP | _ | 43 mountain | case |
| 42 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 43 mountain | det |
| 43 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 home | conj |
| 44 | above | above | ADP | _ | 46 Lake | case |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 Lake | det |
| 46 | Lake | Lake | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 mountain | nmod |
| 47 | of | of | ADP | _ | 48 Gems | case |
| 48 | Gems | Gem | PROPN | Number=Plur | 46 Lake | nmod |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the old woman | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | cord | a pestle and mortar of jade | mortar of jade conj | tree rules | |||
| 3 | get in a quote | can | you | another one | the home of the Genii and a mountain | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent one=Theme from home=Source | |||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | the home of the Genii and a mountain | a mountain | above the Lake of Gems | 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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