The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 14, sentence 58
The fountain of lions is situated in the middle of a court of a great castle, the entrance into which is guarded by four fierce lions, two of which sleep while the other two are awake.
Who acts: four fierce lions, other two · What happens: situate, guard, be · To what, where: fountain, middle, entrance
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (four fierce lions, other two), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 fountain | det |
| 2 | fountain | fountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 situated | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 lions | case |
| 4 | lions | lion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 fountain | nmod |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 situated | aux:pass |
| 6 | situated | situate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 middle | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 middle | det |
| 9 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 situated | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 court | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 court | det |
| 12 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 middle | nmod |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 castle | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 castle | det |
| 15 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 castle | amod |
| 16 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 court | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 entrance | punct |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 entrance | det |
| 19 | entrance | entrance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 castle | appos |
| 20 | into | into | ADP | _ | 21 which | case |
| 21 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 guarded | obl |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 guarded | aux:pass |
| 23 | guarded | guard | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 entrance | acl:relcl |
| 24 | by | by | ADP | _ | 27 lions | case |
| 25 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 27 lions | nummod |
| 26 | fierce | fierce | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 lions | amod |
| 27 | lions | lion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 guarded | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 two | punct |
| 29 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 27 lions | appos |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 which | case |
| 31 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 32 sleep | det |
| 32 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 two | conj |
| 33 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 38 awake | mark |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 two | det |
| 35 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 two | amod |
| 36 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 38 awake | nsubj |
| 37 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 38 awake | cop |
| 38 | awake | awake | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 guarded | advcl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 situated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | situate | present · passive | the fountain of lions | the middle of a court of a great castle | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in middle=Destination | ||||
| 2 | guard | present · passive | four fierce lions | the entrance | vn defend-72.3 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is | present | the other two | awake property | tree rules |
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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