The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 18, sentence 106
The river was wide and the water so swift that they grew very tired, and just before they reached the opposite bank the dog dropped the ring.
Who acts: river, swift, subjects, dog · What happens: be, grow, reach, drop · To what, where: opposite bank, ring
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (river, swift, subjects, dog), 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 | 2 river | det |
| 2 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wide | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 wide | cop |
| 4 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 water | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 water | det |
| 7 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wide | conj |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 grew | advmod |
| 9 | swift | swift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 grew | nsubj |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 grew | mark |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 grew | nsubj |
| 12 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 wide | advcl |
| 13 | very | very | ADV | _ | 14 tired | advmod |
| 14 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 grew | xcomp |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 reached | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 reached | cc |
| 17 | just | just | ADV | _ | 20 reached | advmod |
| 18 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 20 reached | mark |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 reached | nsubj |
| 20 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 wide | parataxis |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 bank | det |
| 22 | opposite | opposite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 bank | amod |
| 23 | bank | bank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 reached | obj |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 dog | det |
| 25 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 dropped | nsubj |
| 26 | dropped | drop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 reached | parataxis |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 ring | det |
| 28 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 dropped | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 wide | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the river | the water conj; wide property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | grow | past | swift | subjects = subject nsubj; tired property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | reach | past | subjects = subject | the opposite bank | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent bank=Theme | ||||
| 4 | drop | past | the dog | the ring | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ring=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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