The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 25, sentence 80
He had no idea where the home of the Genii was, but Yun-Ying took him out into the garden, and showed him, in the far distance, a range of snow-capped mountains, with one peak towering above all the others.
Who acts: Yang, Yun Ying, one peak · What happens: have, take out, show, cap, tower · To what, where: idea, Yang, garden, others
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 (Yang, Yun Ying, one peak), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 idea | det |
| 4 | idea | idea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 had | obj |
| 5 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 11 was | advmod |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 home | det |
| 7 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 was | nsubj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Genii | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Genii | det |
| 10 | Genii | Genii | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 home | nmod |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 idea | acl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 took | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 took | cc |
| 14 | Yun | Yun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Ying | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 Yun | punct |
| 16 | Ying | Ying | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 took | nsubj |
| 17 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 had | parataxis |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 took | obj |
| 19 | out | out | ADP | _ | 17 took | compound:prt |
| 20 | into | into | ADP | _ | 22 garden | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 garden | det |
| 22 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 took | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 showed | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 showed | cc |
| 25 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 took | conj |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 showed | iobj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 distance | punct |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 distance | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 distance | det |
| 30 | far | far | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 distance | amod |
| 31 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 showed | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 range | punct |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 range | det |
| 34 | range | range | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 distance | conj |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 mountains | case |
| 36 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 capped | compound |
| 37 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 36 snow | punct |
| 38 | capped | cap | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 39 mountains | amod |
| 39 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 range | nmod |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 peak | punct |
| 41 | with | with | ADP | _ | 43 peak | case |
| 42 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 43 peak | nummod |
| 43 | peak | peak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 showed | conj |
| 44 | towering | tower | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 43 peak | acl |
| 45 | above | above | ADP | _ | 48 others | case |
| 46 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 48 others | det:predet |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 others | det |
| 48 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 44 towering | obl |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Yang | no idea | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent idea=Patient | ||||
| 2 | take out | past | Yun Ying | Yang | the garden | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 3 | show | past | Yun Ying not said here | Yang | in the far distance and a range of capped mountains; one peak conj | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Patient in distance=Topic | |||
| 4 | cap | participle | snow compound | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | tower | gerund | one peak not said here | all others | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme above other=Location |
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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