The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 26, sentence 93
But the garden was so perfect and so admirably kept that it was impossible there should be no master gardener to keep this domain in such wonderful order.
Who acts: garden · What happens: be, keep · To what, where: master gardener, domain, such wonderful order
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 (garden), 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 perfect | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 garden | det |
| 3 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 perfect | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 perfect | cop |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 perfect | advmod |
| 6 | perfect | perfect | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 kept | cc |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 kept | advmod |
| 9 | admirably | admirably | ADV | _ | 10 kept | advmod |
| 10 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 perfect | conj |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 impossible | mark |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 impossible | expl |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 impossible | cop |
| 14 | impossible | impossible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 gardener | advcl |
| 15 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 17 be | expl |
| 16 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 be | aux |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 gardener | cop |
| 18 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 20 gardener | det |
| 19 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 gardener | compound |
| 20 | gardener | gardener | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 kept | parataxis |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 keep | mark |
| 22 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 kept | advcl |
| 23 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 24 domain | det |
| 24 | domain | domain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 keep | obj |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 order | case |
| 26 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 order | amod |
| 27 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 order | amod |
| 28 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 keep | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 perfect | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the garden | perfect property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | keep | past | the garden not said here | admirably property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is | past | impossible property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | is a | infinitive | no master gardener | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | keep | to-infinitive | the garden not said here | this domain | such wonderful order | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent domain=Theme in order=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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