The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 6, sentence 76
He was just the opposite of his younger brother, called Chô, who was cruel, stingy, dishonest and rich.
Who acts: Musai, opposite · What happens: be, call · To what, where: opposite · Speech: someone speaks here
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: who acts (Musai, opposite), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 opposite | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 opposite | cop |
| 3 | just | just | ADV | _ | 5 opposite | advmod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 opposite | det |
| 5 | opposite | opposite | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 brother | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 brother | nmod:poss |
| 8 | younger | young | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 9 brother | amod |
| 9 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 opposite | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 called | punct |
| 11 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 opposite | acl |
| 12 | Chô | Chô | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 called | xcomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 cruel | punct |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 cruel | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 cruel | cop |
| 16 | cruel | cruel | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 opposite | parataxis |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 stingy | punct |
| 18 | stingy | stingy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 cruel | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 dishonest | punct |
| 20 | dishonest | dishonest | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 cruel | conj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 rich | cc |
| 22 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 dishonest | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 opposite | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Musai | the opposite | of Musai's younger brother | tree rules | |||
| 2 | call | participle | the opposite not said here | Chô xcomp | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is | past | the opposite | cruel property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | be | the opposite not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | be | the opposite not said here | 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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