The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 6, sentence 75
There were once two brothers, the elder of whom, named Musai, was honest and kind, but poor.
What happens: name, be
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 6. 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 were | expl |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 honest | cop |
| 3 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 2 were | advmod |
| 4 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 brothers | nummod |
| 5 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 were | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 elder | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 elder | det |
| 8 | elder | elder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 brothers | appos |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 whom | case |
| 10 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 elder | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 named | punct |
| 12 | named | name | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 whom | acl:relcl |
| 13 | Musai | Musai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 named | xcomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 honest | punct |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 honest | cop |
| 16 | honest | honest | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 kind | cc |
| 18 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 honest | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 poor | punct |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 poor | cc |
| 21 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 honest | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 honest | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | name | participle | Musai xcomp | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | past | honest property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | be | tree rules | |||||||
| 4 | be | tree rules |
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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