The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 26, sentence 108
But how different was the reception of the third young man!
What happens: be · To what, where: different reception
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 reception | cc |
| 2 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 different | advmod |
| 3 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 reception | amod |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 reception | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 reception | det |
| 6 | reception | reception | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 man | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 man | det |
| 9 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 11 man | amod |
| 10 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 man | amod |
| 11 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 reception | nmod |
| 12 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 reception | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the different reception | of the third young man | 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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