The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 10, sentence 26
Some handsome pillars still stood amongst the heaps of ruins, and several rooms, which yet remained in fair preservation, gave evidence of former splendor.
Who acts: handsome pillars, several rooms · What happens: stand, remain, give, evidence · To what, where: heaps, several rooms, fair preservation, evidence, former splendor
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (handsome pillars, several rooms), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 pillars | det |
| 2 | handsome | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 pillars | amod |
| 3 | pillars | pillar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 stood | nsubj |
| 4 | still | still | ADV | _ | 5 stood | advmod |
| 5 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | amongst | amongst | ADP | _ | 8 heaps | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 heaps | det |
| 8 | heaps | heap | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 stood | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 ruins | case |
| 10 | ruins | ruin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 heaps | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 gave | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 gave | cc |
| 13 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 rooms | amod |
| 14 | rooms | room | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 gave | nsubj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 remained | punct |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 remained | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 18 remained | advmod |
| 18 | remained | remain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 rooms | acl |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 preservation | case |
| 20 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 preservation | amod |
| 21 | preservation | preservation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 remained | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 rooms | punct |
| 23 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 stood | conj |
| 24 | evidence | evidence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 gave | obj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 splendor | case |
| 26 | former | former | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 splendor | amod |
| 27 | splendor | splendor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 evidence | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | some handsome pillars | the heaps of ruins | still | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent amongst heap=Location | |||
| 2 | remain | participle · passive | several rooms | fair preservation | yet | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Attribute | |||
| 3 | give | past | several rooms | evidence of former splendor | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent evidence=Theme | ||||
| 4 | evidence | former splendor | nom evidence «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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