The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 19, sentence 111
Now the Fire King lived at the South Pole, where all was snow and ice, for he burned up everything else around him.
Who acts: Fire King, king · What happens: live, be, burn up · To what, where: South Pole, snow, everything
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 (Fire King, king), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 lived | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 King | det |
| 3 | Fire | Fire | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 King | compound |
| 4 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 lived | nsubj |
| 5 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 Pole | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Pole | det |
| 8 | South | South | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Pole | compound |
| 9 | Pole | Pole | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 lived | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 where | punct |
| 11 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 5 lived | obl |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 snow | det |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 snow | cop |
| 14 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 where | appos |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 ice | cc |
| 16 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 snow | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 burned | punct |
| 18 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 20 burned | mark |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 burned | nsubj |
| 20 | burned | burn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 lived | conj |
| 21 | up | up | ADP | _ | 20 burned | compound:prt |
| 22 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 20 burned | obj |
| 23 | else | else | ADV | _ | 22 everything | advmod |
| 24 | around | around | ADP | _ | 25 him | case |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 burned | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | the Fire King | the South Pole | now | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at pole=Location | |||
| 2 | is a | past | all snow and ice | ice conj | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | burn up | past | king | everything | around snow | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent everything=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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