The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 2, sentence 16
Suddenly there came through the open window the sound of such beautiful music that new life came to the sick man.
Who acts: new life · What happens: come · To what, where: sound, open window, such beautiful music
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (new life), 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 | _ | 3 came | advmod |
| 2 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 came | advmod |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | through | through | ADP | _ | 7 window | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 window | det |
| 6 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 window | amod |
| 7 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 sound | det |
| 9 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 music | case |
| 11 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 music | amod |
| 12 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 music | amod |
| 13 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sound | nmod |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 came | obl |
| 15 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 life | amod |
| 16 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 came | nsubj |
| 17 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 music | acl:relcl |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 man | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 man | det |
| 20 | sick | sick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 man | amod |
| 21 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 came | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the sound of such beautiful music | the open window; there | suddenly property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through window=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | come | past | new life | such beautiful music | to the sick man | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to man=Initial_Location |
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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