The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 15, sentence 90
Some years ago there lived in a small town in the province of “The Four Streams” two retired magistrates.
What happens: live · To what, where: small town
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 years | det |
| 2 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 lived | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 2 years | advmod |
| 4 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 lived | advmod |
| 5 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 town | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 town | det |
| 8 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 town | amod |
| 9 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lived | obl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 province | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 province | det |
| 12 | province | province | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 town | nmod |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 magistrates | case |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 magistrates | punct |
| 15 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Streams | det |
| 16 | Four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 Streams | nummod |
| 17 | Streams | Stream | PROPN | Number=Plur | 21 magistrates | nsubj |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 Streams | punct |
| 19 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 magistrates | nummod |
| 20 | retired | retired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 magistrates | amod |
| 21 | magistrates | magistrate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 province | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | a small town in the province of two retired magistrates the Four Streams; there | year | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in town=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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