The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 16, sentence 13
At length they reached a spot where a huge carp lay, surrounded by attendant fishes.
Who acts: people, attendant fishes · What happens: reach, surround · To what, where: spot, length, huge carp lay
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, attendant fishes), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 length | case |
| 2 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 reached | obl |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 reached | nsubj |
| 4 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 spot | det |
| 6 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 reached | obj |
| 7 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 13 surrounded | advmod |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 lay | det |
| 9 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 lay | amod |
| 10 | carp | carp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 lay | compound |
| 11 | lay | lay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 surrounded | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 surrounded | punct |
| 13 | surrounded | surround | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 spot | acl:relcl |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 fishes | case |
| 15 | attendant | attendant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 fishes | compound |
| 16 | fishes | fish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 surrounded | obl:agent |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 reached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | people | a spot | length | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent spot=Theme at length=Asset | |||
| 2 | surround | participle · passive | attendant fishes | a huge carp lay | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Co-Theme |
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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