The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 17, sentence 104
Admire those beautiful trees, whose branches bend down to the ground.
Who acts: you, branches · What happens: admire, bend down · To what, where: beautiful trees, ground
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, branches), 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 | Admire | admire | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 4 trees | det |
| 3 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 trees | amod |
| 4 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Admire | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 bend | punct |
| 6 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 7 branches | nmod:poss |
| 7 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 bend | nsubj |
| 8 | bend | bend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 trees | acl:relcl |
| 9 | down | down | ADV | _ | 8 bend | advmod |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 ground | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 ground | det |
| 12 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bend | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Admire | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | admire | imperative | you not said here | that beautiful trees | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tree=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | bend down | present | branches | the ground | down property | vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to ground=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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