The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 19, sentence 9
They were crossing a desert under a burning sun and at length reached an oasis, where the caravan rested.
Who acts: tutor, caravan · What happens: cross, burn, reach, rest · To what, where: desert, burning sun, oasis, length
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 (tutor, caravan), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 crossing | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 crossing | aux |
| 3 | crossing | cross | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 desert | det |
| 5 | desert | desert | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 crossing | obj |
| 6 | under | under | ADP | _ | 9 sun | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 sun | det |
| 8 | burning | burn | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 sun | amod |
| 9 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 crossing | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 reached | cc |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 length | case |
| 12 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 reached | obl |
| 13 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 crossing | conj |
| 14 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 oasis | det |
| 15 | oasis | oasis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 reached | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 rested | punct |
| 17 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 20 rested | advmod |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 caravan | det |
| 19 | caravan | caravan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 rested | nsubj |
| 20 | rested | rest | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 oasis | acl:relcl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 crossing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cross | past · progressive | tutor | a desert | a burning sun | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent desert=Patient | |||
| 2 | burn | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | reach | past | tutor not said here | a oasis | length | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent oasis=Theme at length=Asset | |||
| 4 | rest | past | the caravan | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=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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