The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 17, sentence 109
At the entrance to the bridge stood a company of very tall genii, who guarded the portals of the castle with great clubs of steel.
Who acts: tall genii · What happens: stand, guard · To what, where: company, entrance, portals
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 (tall genii), 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 | _ | 3 entrance | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 entrance | det |
| 3 | entrance | entrance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stood | obl |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 bridge | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 bridge | det |
| 6 | bridge | bridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 entrance | nmod |
| 7 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 company | det |
| 9 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stood | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 genii | case |
| 11 | very | very | ADV | _ | 12 tall | advmod |
| 12 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 genii | amod |
| 13 | genii | genii | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 company | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 guarded | punct |
| 15 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 guarded | nsubj |
| 16 | guarded | guard | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 genii | acl:relcl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 portals | det |
| 18 | portals | portal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 guarded | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 castle | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 castle | det |
| 21 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 portals | nmod |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 clubs | case |
| 23 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 clubs | amod |
| 24 | clubs | club | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 castle | nmod |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 steel | case |
| 26 | steel | steel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 clubs | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | a company of tall genii | the entrance to the bridge | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent company=Theme at entrance=Destination | ||||
| 2 | guard | past | tall genii | the portals of the castle with great clubs of steel | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent portal=Beneficiary |
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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