The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Chapter titles have been normalized throughout., sentence 12
Page 124, ‘power’ changed to ‘powder,’ “their magic powder”
What happens: change · To what, where: power, Page
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Chapter titles have been normalized throughout.. 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 | Page | page | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | 124 | 124 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 Page | flat |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 power | punct |
| 4 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 power | punct |
| 5 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Page | conj |
| 6 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 power | punct |
| 7 | changed | change | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 power | acl |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 powder | case |
| 9 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 powder | punct |
| 10 | powder | powder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 changed | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Page | punct |
| 12 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 1 Page | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 powder | punct |
| 14 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 powder | nmod:poss |
| 15 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 powder | amod |
| 16 | powder | powder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Page | appos |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 powder | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | change | participle | power not said here | to powder result | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Agent to powder=Result |
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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