The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 10, sentence 86
Through the gap near which they stood they could with ease survey the whole of the large hall.
Who acts: Chasid · What happens: stand · To what, where: gap
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 | Through | through | ADP | _ | 3 gap | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 gap | det |
| 3 | gap | gap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stood | obl |
| 4 | near | near | ADP | _ | 5 which | case |
| 5 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 stood | obl |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 stood | nsubj |
| 7 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 could | nsubj |
| 9 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 stood | advcl |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 survey | case |
| 11 | ease | ease | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 survey | compound |
| 12 | survey | survey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stood | obl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 whole | det |
| 14 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 survey | amod |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 hall | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 hall | det |
| 17 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 hall | amod |
| 18 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 whole | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | Chasid | the gap | with ease survey; which obl | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent through gap=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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