The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 19, sentence 105
Suddenly a small island seemed to lift itself out of the water right in front of them, and upon it stood an old man, with snow white hair.
Who acts: small island, island · What happens: seem, lift, stand · To what, where: island, water, old man
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (small island, island), 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 | Suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 5 seemed | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 island | det |
| 3 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 island | amod |
| 4 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 seemed | nsubj |
| 5 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 lift | mark |
| 7 | lift | lift | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 seemed | xcomp |
| 8 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 7 lift | obj |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 water | case |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 water | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 water | det |
| 12 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lift | obl |
| 13 | right | right | ADV | _ | 15 front | advmod |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 front | case |
| 15 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lift | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 them | case |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 front | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 stood | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 stood | cc |
| 20 | upon | upon | SCONJ | _ | 22 stood | mark |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 stood | nsubj |
| 22 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 seemed | conj |
| 23 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 man | det |
| 24 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 man | amod |
| 25 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 stood | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 hair | punct |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 30 hair | case |
| 28 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 hair | nsubj |
| 29 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 hair | amod |
| 30 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 stood | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 seemed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | past | a small island | suddenly property | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | lift | to-infinitive | a small island not said here | island | the water | in front of Haki | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent itself=Theme out water=Destination in front=Initial_Location | ||
| 3 | stand | past | island | a old man | with white hair snow | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus |
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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