The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 17, sentence 118
The whole island was covered with a thick darkness, a furious storm of wind blew, a dreadful cry was heard, the island felt a shock as if of an earthquake, and the Sultan of the Genii appeared in the shape of a very handsome man, yet there was something terrific in his air.
Who acts: wind, island, Sultan, something · What happens: cover, blow, hear, feel, appear, be · To what, where: whole island, furious storm, dreadful cry, shock, shape
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 (wind, island, Sultan, something), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 island | det |
| 2 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 island | amod |
| 3 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 covered | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 covered | aux:pass |
| 5 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 darkness | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 darkness | det |
| 8 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 darkness | amod |
| 9 | darkness | darkness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 covered | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 storm | punct |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 storm | det |
| 12 | furious | furious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 storm | amod |
| 13 | storm | storm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 darkness | appos |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 blew | case |
| 15 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 blew | nsubj |
| 16 | blew | blow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 storm | acl:relcl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 heard | punct |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 cry | det |
| 19 | dreadful | dreadful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 cry | amod |
| 20 | cry | cry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 heard | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 heard | aux:pass |
| 22 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 covered | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 felt | punct |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 island | det |
| 25 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 felt | nsubj |
| 26 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 heard | conj |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 shock | det |
| 28 | shock | shock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 felt | obj |
| 29 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 33 earthquake | mark |
| 30 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 33 earthquake | mark |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 earthquake | case |
| 32 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 earthquake | det |
| 33 | earthquake | earthquake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 felt | advcl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 appeared | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 appeared | cc |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 Sultan | det |
| 37 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 appeared | nsubj |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 Genii | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 Genii | det |
| 40 | Genii | Genii | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 Sultan | nmod |
| 41 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 covered | parataxis |
| 42 | in | in | ADP | _ | 44 shape | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 shape | det |
| 44 | shape | shape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 appeared | obl |
| 45 | of | of | ADP | _ | 49 man | case |
| 46 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 49 man | det |
| 47 | very | very | ADV | _ | 48 handsome | advmod |
| 48 | handsome | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 man | amod |
| 49 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 shape | nmod |
| 50 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 53 was | punct |
| 51 | yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 53 was | cc |
| 52 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 53 was | expl |
| 53 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 appeared | advcl |
| 54 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 53 was | nsubj |
| 55 | terrific | terrific | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 54 something | amod |
| 56 | in | in | ADP | _ | 58 air | case |
| 57 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 58 air | nmod:poss |
| 58 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 55 terrific | obl |
| 59 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 covered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cover | past · passive | the whole island | with a thick darkness | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with darkness=Theme | ||||
| 2 | blow | past | wind | a furious storm not said here | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent storm=Patient | ||||
| 3 | hear | past · passive | a dreadful cry | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | feel | past | the island | a shock | a earthquake advcl | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shock=Theme | |||
| 5 | appear | past | the Sultan of the Genii | the shape of a handsome man | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in shape=Location | ||||
| 6 | be | past | something | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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