The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 26, sentence 91
Everything was in such good order and so well kept; there was not even a blade of grass that did not show evidence of having been watered.
Who acts: Everything, blade, that · What happens: be, keep, not show, water · To what, where: such good order, evidence
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 (Everything, blade, that), 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 | Everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 6 order | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 order | cop |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 order | case |
| 4 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 order | amod |
| 5 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 order | amod |
| 6 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 kept | cc |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 kept | advmod |
| 9 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 kept | advmod |
| 10 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 order | conj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 was | punct |
| 12 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 13 was | expl |
| 13 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 order | parataxis |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 blade | advmod |
| 15 | even | even | ADV | _ | 17 blade | advmod |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 blade | det |
| 17 | blade | blade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 was | nsubj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 grass | case |
| 19 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 blade | nmod |
| 20 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 show | nsubj |
| 21 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 show | aux |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 show | advmod |
| 23 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 blade | parataxis |
| 24 | evidence | evidence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 show | obj |
| 25 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 28 watered | mark |
| 26 | having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 28 watered | aux |
| 27 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 28 watered | aux:pass |
| 28 | watered | water | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 evidence | acl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 order | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Everything | such good order | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | keep | participle | Everything not said here | well property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | be | past | a blade of grass | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | not show | past · do-support | that | evidence | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent evidence=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | water | gerund · perfect · passive | evidence not said here | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination» |
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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