The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 17, sentence 107
At length they came before a palace built of emeralds, encompassed by a wide moat, on the banks whereof, at certain distances, were planted such tall trees that they shaded the whole palace.
Who acts: beauties · What happens: come, build, encompass, plant, shade · To what, where: length, palace, emeralds, banks, such tall trees
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 (beauties), 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 came | obl |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | before | before | ADP | _ | 7 palace | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 palace | det |
| 7 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl |
| 8 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 palace | acl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 emeralds | case |
| 10 | emeralds | emerald | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 built | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 encompassed | punct |
| 12 | encompassed | encompass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 emeralds | acl |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 moat | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 moat | det |
| 15 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 moat | amod |
| 16 | moat | moat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 encompassed | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 banks | punct |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 banks | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 banks | det |
| 20 | banks | bank | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 encompassed | obl |
| 21 | whereof | whereof | ADV | PronType=Int | 20 banks | advmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 distances | punct |
| 23 | at | at | ADP | _ | 25 distances | case |
| 24 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 distances | amod |
| 25 | distances | distance | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 encompassed | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 planted | punct |
| 27 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 planted | aux:pass |
| 28 | planted | plant | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 came | advcl |
| 29 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 trees | amod |
| 30 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 trees | amod |
| 31 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 planted | obj |
| 32 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 34 shaded | obj |
| 33 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 shaded | nsubj |
| 34 | shaded | shade | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 trees | acl:relcl |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 palace | det |
| 36 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 palace | amod |
| 37 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 shaded | obj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | beauties = beauty | length | before a palace | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at length=Location | |||
| 2 | build | participle | a palace not said here | of emeralds | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | encompass | participle | emeralds not said here | the banks | by a wide moat; at certain distances | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot | |||
| 4 | plant | past · passive | beauties = beauty not said here | such tall trees | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: tree=Patient | ||||
| 5 | shade | past | beauties = beauty | such tall trees | the whole palace obj | 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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