The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 10, sentence 84
They passed through a long dark passage till at length a bright ray of light shone before them through the chinks of a half-ruined wall.
Who acts: Chasid · What happens: pass, shine, ruin, ray · To what, where: long dark passage, bright ray, chinks, light
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 (Chasid), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 passed | nsubj |
| 2 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | through | through | ADP | _ | 7 passage | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 passage | det |
| 5 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 passage | amod |
| 6 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 passage | amod |
| 7 | passage | passage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 passed | obl |
| 8 | till | till | ADP | _ | 10 length | case |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 length | case |
| 10 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 passage | nmod |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 ray | det |
| 12 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 ray | amod |
| 13 | ray | ray | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 length | appos |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 light | case |
| 15 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 ray | nmod |
| 16 | shone | shine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 ray | acl |
| 17 | before | before | ADP | _ | 18 them | case |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 shone | obl |
| 19 | through | through | ADP | _ | 21 chinks | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 chinks | det |
| 21 | chinks | chink | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 shone | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 wall | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 wall | det |
| 24 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 26 ruined | compound |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 half | punct |
| 26 | ruined | ruin | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 wall | amod |
| 27 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 chinks | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | past | Chasid | a long dark passage till length | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through passage=Location | ||||
| 2 | shine | participle | a bright ray of light not said here | the chinks of a ruined wall | before Chasid | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before they=Location | |||
| 3 | ruin | participle | half compound | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | ray | light | nom ray «phenomenon 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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