The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 10, sentence 34
On the floor of the ruined chamber—which was but scantily lighted by a small barred window—sat a large screech owl.
Who acts: small barred window · What happens: ruin, light, bar, sit · To what, where: ruined chamber, large screech owl, floor
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 (small barred window), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 floor | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 floor | det |
| 3 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 sat | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 chamber | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 chamber | det |
| 6 | ruined | ruin | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 chamber | amod |
| 7 | chamber | chamber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 floor | nmod |
| 8 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 lighted | punct |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 lighted | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 lighted | aux |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 lighted | cc |
| 12 | scantily | scantily | ADV | _ | 13 lighted | advmod |
| 13 | lighted | light | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 chamber | acl:relcl |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 window | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 window | det |
| 16 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 window | amod |
| 17 | barred | bar | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 window | amod |
| 18 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 lighted | obl |
| 19 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 floor | punct |
| 20 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 owl | det |
| 22 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 owl | amod |
| 23 | screech | screech | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 owl | compound |
| 24 | owl | owl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 sat | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ruin | participle | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | light | past · passive | a small barred window | the ruined chamber | scantily property | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Product | |||
| 3 | bar | participle | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Causer | ||||||
| 4 | sit | past | a large screech owl | the floor of the ruined chamber | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent owl=Theme on floor=Location |
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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