The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 10, sentence 98
Three times the storks bowed their long necks to the sun, which was just rising over the mountains.
Who acts: storks, sun · What happens: bow, rise · To what, where: long necks, sun, mountains
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 (storks, sun), 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 | Three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 times | nummod |
| 2 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 bowed | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 storks | det |
| 4 | storks | stork | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 bowed | nsubj |
| 5 | bowed | bow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 necks | nmod:poss |
| 7 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 necks | amod |
| 8 | necks | neck | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 bowed | obj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 sun | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 sun | det |
| 11 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bowed | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 rising | punct |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 rising | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 rising | aux |
| 15 | just | just | ADV | _ | 16 rising | advmod |
| 16 | rising | rise | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 sun | acl |
| 17 | over | over | ADP | _ | 19 mountains | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 mountains | det |
| 19 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 rising | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 bowed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bow | past | the storks | birds's long necks | the sun | time | vn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent neck=Topic to sun=Recipient | ||
| 2 | rise | past · progressive | the sun | the mountains | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over mountain=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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