The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 26, sentence 57
The pestle and mortar of jade stood beneath the peach tree, for it was too large and too heavy to be moved, and it was certainly of no use to Yun-Ying’s mother, because it was too big for her to pound her magic drugs in, even if she could get inside it, which she couldn’t.
Who acts: pestle, tree, mother · What happens: stand, be, move, get · To what, where: peach tree, tree
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 (pestle, tree, mother), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 pestle | det |
| 2 | pestle | pestle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stood | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 mortar | cc |
| 4 | mortar | mortar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 pestle | conj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 jade | case |
| 6 | jade | jade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 pestle | nmod |
| 7 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | beneath | beneath | ADP | _ | 11 tree | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 tree | det |
| 10 | peach | peach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 tree | compound |
| 11 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stood | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 large | punct |
| 13 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 17 large | mark |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 large | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 large | cop |
| 16 | too | too | ADV | _ | 17 large | advmod |
| 17 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 stood | parataxis |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 heavy | cc |
| 19 | too | too | ADV | _ | 20 heavy | advmod |
| 20 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 large | conj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 moved | mark |
| 22 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 moved | aux:pass |
| 23 | moved | move | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 heavy | advcl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 use | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 use | cc |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 use | nsubj |
| 27 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 use | cop |
| 28 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 31 use | advmod |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 use | case |
| 30 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 31 use | det |
| 31 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stood | obl |
| 32 | to | to | ADP | _ | 37 mother | case |
| 33 | Yun | Yun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 Ying | compound |
| 34 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 33 Yun | punct |
| 35 | Ying | Ying | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 mother | nmod:poss |
| 36 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 35 Ying | case |
| 37 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 use | nmod |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 big | punct |
| 39 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 43 big | mark |
| 40 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 big | nsubj |
| 41 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 43 big | cop |
| 42 | too | too | ADV | _ | 43 big | advmod |
| 43 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 stood | parataxis |
| 44 | for | for | ADP | _ | 45 her | case |
| 45 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 big | obl |
| 46 | to | to | PART | _ | 47 pound | mark |
| 47 | pound | pound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 big | advcl |
| 48 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 50 drugs | nmod:poss |
| 49 | magic | magic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 drugs | compound |
| 50 | drugs | drug | NOUN | Number=Plur | 43 big | nsubj |
| 51 | in | in | ADV | _ | 43 big | advmod |
| 52 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 57 get | punct |
| 53 | even | even | ADV | _ | 57 get | advmod |
| 54 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 57 get | mark |
| 55 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 57 get | nsubj |
| 56 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 57 get | aux |
| 57 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 stood | parataxis |
| 58 | inside | inside | ADP | _ | 59 it | case |
| 59 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 57 get | obl |
| 60 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 63 could | punct |
| 61 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 63 could | nsubj |
| 62 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 63 could | nsubj |
| 63 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 57 get | advcl |
| 64 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 63 could | advmod |
| 65 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | the pestle of jade and mortar | the peach tree | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beneath tree=Location | ||||
| 2 | is | past | tree | large property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | tree not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | move | to-infinitive · passive | tree not said here | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V» | |||||
| 5 | is | past | tree | of no use; to Yun Ying's mother; certainly property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | is | past | tree | for mother; pound advcl; mother's magic drugs nsubj; big property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | get a condition, not said to happen | could | mother | tree | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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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