The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 2, sentence 27

Upon every bough of the tree in front of him were perched many birds, and in the center of them sat the poor fisherman, who held to his lips a reed instrument.

Who acts: poor fisherman · What happens: perch, sit, hold · To what, where: many birds, bough, poor fisherman, center

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 (poor fisherman), 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	Upon	upon	ADP	_	3 bough	case
2	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	3 bough	det
3	bough	bough	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 perched	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 tree	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 tree	det
6	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bough	nmod
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 front	case
8	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tree	nmod
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 him	case
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 front	nmod
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 perched	aux:pass
12	perched	perch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
13	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 birds	amod
14	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 perched	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 sat	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 sat	cc
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 center	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 center	det
19	center	center	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 sat	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 them	case
21	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 center	nmod
22	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 perched	conj
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 fisherman	det
24	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 fisherman	amod
25	fisherman	fisherman	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 sat	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 held	punct
27	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 held	nsubj
28	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 fisherman	acl:relcl
29	to	to	ADP	_	31 lips	case
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 lips	nmod:poss
31	lips	lip	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 held	obl
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 instrument	det
33	reed	reed	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 instrument	compound
34	instrument	instrument	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 lips	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 perched	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	perch	past · passive		many birds	every bough of the tree in front of Emperor		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: bird=Theme upon bough=Destination
2	sit	past		the poor fisherman	the center of bough		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent fisherman=Theme in center=Location
3	hold	past	the poor fisherman			to Emperor's lips a reed instrument	vn exist-47.1 «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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🌲 The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 2, sentence 27

The tree

Pragmatics

The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 2, sentence 27