The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 17, sentence 117
Immediately their eyes were dazzled by a long flash of lightning, which was followed by a clap of thunder.
Who acts: long flash, clap, lightning · What happens: dazzle, follow, flash, clap · To what, where: eyes, long flash, thunder
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 (long flash, clap, lightning), 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 | Immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 5 dazzled | advmod |
| 2 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 3 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 dazzled | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 dazzled | aux:pass |
| 5 | dazzled | dazzle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 flash | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 flash | det |
| 8 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 flash | amod |
| 9 | flash | flash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 dazzled | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 lightning | case |
| 11 | lightning | lightning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 flash | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 followed | punct |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 followed | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 followed | aux:pass |
| 15 | followed | follow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 flash | acl:relcl |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 clap | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 clap | det |
| 18 | clap | clap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 followed | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 thunder | case |
| 20 | thunder | thunder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 clap | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 dazzled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dazzle | past · passive | a long flash of lightning | statues's eyes | immediately property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | follow | past · passive | a clap of thunder | a long flash of lightning | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | flash | lightning | nom flash «event intransitive»: of=agent | ||||||
| 4 | clap | thunder | nom clap «event transitive»: of=patient |
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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