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The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 19, sentence 106

He stretched out his hands over the water, which went to the right and to the left, leaving a dry path by means of which the young warriors reached the island.

Who acts: snow, young warriors · What happens: stretch out, go, leave, mean, reach · To what, where: hands, water, dry path, island · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (snow, young warriors), 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

nsubjcompound:prtnmod:possobjcasedetoblpunctnsubjparataxiscasedetoblcccasedetconjpunctadvcldetamodobjcaseadvclcaseobldetamodnsubjccompdetobjpunctrootHePRONstretchedVERBoutADPhisPRONhandsNOUNoverADPtheDETwaterNOUN,PUNCTwhichPRONwentVERBtoADPtheDETrightNOUNandCCONJtoADPtheDETleftNOUN,PUNCTleavingVERBaDETdryADJpathNOUNbyADPmeansVERBofADPwhichPRONtheDETyoungADJwarriorsNOUNreachedVERBtheDETislandNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1HehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs2 stretchednsubj
2stretchedstretchVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
3outoutADP_2 stretchedcompound:prt
4hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs5 handsnmod:poss
5handshandNOUNNumber=Plur2 stretchedobj
6overoverADP_8 watercase
7thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art8 waterdet
8waterwaterNOUNNumber=Sing11 wentobl
9,,PUNCT_11 wentpunct
10whichwhichPRONPronType=Rel11 wentnsubj
11wentgoVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin2 stretchedparataxis
12totoADP_14 rightcase
13thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art14 rightdet
14rightrightNOUNNumber=Sing11 wentobl
15andandCCONJ_18 leftcc
16totoADP_18 leftcase
17thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art18 leftdet
18leftleftNOUNNumber=Sing14 rightconj
19,,PUNCT_20 leavingpunct
20leavingleaveVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part11 wentadvcl
21aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art23 pathdet
22drydryADJDegree=Pos23 pathamod
23pathpathNOUNNumber=Sing20 leavingobj
24bybyADP_25 meanscase
25meansmeanVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin20 leavingadvcl
26ofofADP_27 whichcase
27whichwhichPRONPronType=Rel31 reachedobl
28thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art30 warriorsdet
29youngyoungADJDegree=Pos30 warriorsamod
30warriorswarriorNOUNNumber=Plur31 reachednsubj
31reachedreachVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin25 meansccomp
32thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art33 islanddet
33islandislandNOUNNumber=Sing31 reachedobj
34..PUNCT_2 stretchedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1stretch outpastsnowsnow's handsvn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent hand=Patient
2gopastthe waterto the right and the left; which nsubjvn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme over water=Initial_Location to right=Destination
3leavegerunda dry pathvn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent path=Theme
4meanpresentvn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5reachpastthe young warriorsthe islandwhich oblvn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent island=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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