The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 26, sentence 40
On reaching the Red River, the White River, and the Blue River, Pei-Hang did the same thing, and since that time no one has been able to find the home of the Genii, because no one else could cross the Blue River, much less the other three.
Who acts: Blue River, one · What happens: reach, do, be, find, cross · To what, where: Red River, same thing, home, Blue River
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: who acts (Blue River, one), 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 | On | on | SCONJ | _ | 2 reaching | mark |
| 2 | reaching | reach | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 River | det |
| 4 | Red | Red | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 River | flat |
| 5 | River | River | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 reaching | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 River | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 River | det |
| 8 | White | White | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 River | compound |
| 9 | River | River | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 River | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 did | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 did | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 River | det |
| 13 | Blue | Blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 River | amod |
| 14 | River | River | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 did | nsubj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 Pei | punct |
| 16 | Pei | Pei | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 River | conj |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 Hang | punct |
| 18 | Hang | Hang | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Pei | conj |
| 19 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 River | acl:relcl |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 thing | det |
| 21 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 thing | amod |
| 22 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 did | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 able | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 able | cc |
| 25 | since | since | ADP | _ | 27 time | case |
| 26 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 27 time | det |
| 27 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 able | obl |
| 28 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 29 one | det |
| 29 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 able | nsubj |
| 30 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 able | aux |
| 31 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 32 able | cop |
| 32 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 did | conj |
| 33 | to | to | PART | _ | 34 find | mark |
| 34 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 able | xcomp |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 home | det |
| 36 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 find | obj |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 Genii | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 Genii | det |
| 39 | Genii | Genii | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 home | nmod |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 cross | punct |
| 41 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 46 cross | mark |
| 42 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 43 one | det |
| 43 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 cross | nsubj |
| 44 | else | else | ADV | _ | 43 one | advmod |
| 45 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 46 cross | aux |
| 46 | cross | cross | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 find | conj |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 River | det |
| 48 | Blue | Blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 River | amod |
| 49 | River | River | PROPN | Number=Sing | 46 cross | obj |
| 50 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 55 three | punct |
| 51 | much | much | ADV | _ | 52 less | advmod |
| 52 | less | less | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 55 three | advmod |
| 53 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 55 three | det |
| 54 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 55 three | amod |
| 55 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 49 River | conj |
| 56 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 reaching | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | gerund | the Red River and the White River | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent river=Theme | |||||
| 2 | do | past | the Blue River and Pei and Hang | the same thing | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | is | present · perfect | no one | time | able property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | find | to-infinitive | no one not said here | the home of the Genii | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent home=Topic | ||||
| 5 | cross | could | no one | the Blue River | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent river=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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