The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 1, sentence 106
It was a really wonderful garden, and so large that even the Head Gardener himself did not know where it ended.
Who acts: palace, Head · What happens: be, not know, end · To what, where: wonderful garden · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (palace, Head), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 garden | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 garden | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 garden | det |
| 4 | really | really | ADV | _ | 5 wonderful | advmod |
| 5 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 garden | amod |
| 6 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 large | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 large | cc |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 large | advmod |
| 10 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 garden | amod |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 know | mark |
| 12 | even | even | ADV | _ | 14 Head | advmod |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Head | det |
| 14 | Head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 know | nsubj |
| 15 | Gardener | Gardener | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Head | appos |
| 16 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 14 Head | nmod |
| 17 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 know | aux |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 know | advmod |
| 19 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 large | advcl |
| 20 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 22 ended | advmod |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 ended | nsubj |
| 22 | ended | end | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 know | ccomp |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 garden | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | palace | a wonderful garden | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not know | past · do-support | the Head Head | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | end | past | palace | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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