The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 17, sentence 25
In the midst of this room were nine pedestals of massy gold, on eight of which stood as many statues, each of them made of a single diamond, and from them darted such a brightness that the whole room was perfectly light.
Who acts: nine pedestals, whole room · What happens: be, stand, make, dart · To what, where: nine pedestals, midst, many statues, eight, brightness, light
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 (nine pedestals, whole room), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 midst | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 midst | det |
| 3 | midst | midst | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 pedestals | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 room | case |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 room | det |
| 6 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 midst | nmod |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 pedestals | cop |
| 8 | nine | nine | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 pedestals | nummod |
| 9 | pedestals | pedestal | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 gold | case |
| 11 | massy | massy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 gold | amod |
| 12 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 pedestals | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 eight | punct |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 eight | case |
| 15 | eight | eight | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 stood | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 which | case |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 stood | nsubj |
| 18 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 pedestals | parataxis |
| 19 | as | as | ADV | _ | 20 many | advmod |
| 20 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 statues | amod |
| 21 | statues | statue | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 stood | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 each | punct |
| 23 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 statues | appos |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 them | case |
| 25 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 each | nmod |
| 26 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 statues | acl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 diamond | case |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 diamond | det |
| 29 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 diamond | amod |
| 30 | diamond | diamond | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 made | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 darted | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 darted | cc |
| 33 | from | from | ADP | _ | 34 them | case |
| 34 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 darted | obl |
| 35 | darted | dart | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 stood | conj |
| 36 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 38 brightness | det:predet |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 brightness | det |
| 38 | brightness | brightness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 darted | obj |
| 39 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 45 light | mark |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 room | det |
| 41 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 room | amod |
| 42 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 light | nsubj |
| 43 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 45 light | cop |
| 44 | perfectly | perfectly | ADV | _ | 45 light | advmod |
| 45 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 darted | advcl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 pedestals | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | nine pedestals | the midst of this room | of massy gold | tree rules | |||
| 2 | stand | past | nine pedestals | many statues | eight | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent statue=Theme on eight=Destination | |||
| 3 | make | participle | many statues not said here | of a single diamond | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||
| 4 | dart | past | nine pedestals not said here | such brightness | from statues = statue | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent brightness=Theme from they=Trajectory | |||
| 5 | is a | past | the whole room | light | perfectly property | 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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