Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth, The Basket Maker., sentence 1
In the midst of that vast ocean, commonly called the South-Sea, lie the islands of Solomon.
What happens: call, lie · To what, where: vast ocean, islands, midst · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, The Basket Maker.. 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 midst | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 midst | det |
| 3 | midst | midst | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 lie | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 ocean | case |
| 5 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 ocean | det |
| 6 | vast | vast | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 ocean | amod |
| 7 | ocean | ocean | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 midst | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 called | punct |
| 9 | commonly | commonly | ADV | _ | 10 called | advmod |
| 10 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 ocean | acl:relcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Sea | det |
| 12 | South | South | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Sea | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 South | punct |
| 14 | Sea | Sea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 called | xcomp |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 midst | punct |
| 16 | lie | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 islands | det |
| 18 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 lie | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Solomon | case |
| 20 | Solomon | Solomon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 islands | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 lie | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | participle | that vast ocean not said here | the South Sea xcomp; commonly property | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | lie | present | the islands of Solomon | the midst of that vast ocean | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location island=Theme |
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: «Oriental tales, for the entertainment of youth» by Anonymous, Project Gutenberg book 62868 (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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