The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 19, sentence 70
He was twenty-eight feet tall, whose face and body were entirely covered with coal-black hair, so it can be imagined that he was anything but beautiful.
Who acts: man · What happens: be, cover, imagine · To what, where: face, hair, anything
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 (man), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 tall | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 tall | cop |
| 3 | twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 eight | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 twenty | punct |
| 5 | eight | eight | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 feet | nummod |
| 6 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 tall | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 face | punct |
| 9 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 10 face | nmod:poss |
| 10 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 covered | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 body | cc |
| 12 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 face | conj |
| 13 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 covered | aux:pass |
| 14 | entirely | entirely | ADV | _ | 15 covered | advmod |
| 15 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 tall | parataxis |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 hair | case |
| 17 | coal | coal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 hair | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 coal | punct |
| 19 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 hair | amod |
| 20 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 covered | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 imagined | punct |
| 22 | so | so | ADV | _ | 26 imagined | advmod |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 imagined | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 imagined | aux |
| 25 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 imagined | aux:pass |
| 26 | imagined | imagine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 tall | parataxis |
| 27 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 30 anything | mark |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 anything | nsubj |
| 29 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 anything | cop |
| 30 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 26 imagined | obj |
| 31 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 32 beautiful | cc |
| 32 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 anything | conj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 tall | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | man | eight feet obl:unmarked; tall property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | cover | past · passive | face and body | with coal black hair; entirely property | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with hair=Theme | ||||
| 3 | imagine | can · passive | hair | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 4 | is a | past | man | anything | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | be | man not said here | 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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