The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 20, sentence 23
With such force did he strike the rocks that he made a great hole in the mountain, in which were embedded some of the pillars which upheld the heavens, and one of these pillars was broken.
Who acts: Korkwi, rocks, pillars · What happens: strike, make, embed, uphold, break · To what, where: rocks, great hole, mountain, some, heavens, one
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Korkwi, rocks, pillars), 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 3 force | case |
| 2 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 force | amod |
| 3 | force | force | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 strike | obl |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 strike | aux |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 strike | nsubj |
| 6 | strike | strike | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 rocks | det |
| 8 | rocks | rock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 strike | obj |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 made | nsubj |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 made | nsubj |
| 11 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 rocks | acl:relcl |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 hole | det |
| 13 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 hole | amod |
| 14 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 made | obj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 mountain | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 mountain | det |
| 17 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 made | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 embedded | punct |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 which | case |
| 20 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 embedded | obl |
| 21 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 embedded | aux:pass |
| 22 | embedded | embed | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 rocks | acl |
| 23 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 22 embedded | obj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 pillars | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 pillars | det |
| 26 | pillars | pillar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 some | nmod |
| 27 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 upheld | nsubj |
| 28 | upheld | uphold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 pillars | acl:relcl |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 heavens | det |
| 30 | heavens | heaven | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 upheld | obj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 broken | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 broken | cc |
| 33 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 38 broken | nsubj:pass |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 pillars | case |
| 35 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 36 pillars | det |
| 36 | pillars | pillar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 one | nmod |
| 37 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 broken | aux:pass |
| 38 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 strike | parataxis |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 strike | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | strike | past · do-support | Korkwi | the rocks | with such force | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent rock=Patient with force=Instrument | |||
| 2 | make | past | the rocks | a great hole | the mountain | Korkwi nsubj | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset hole=Product | ||
| 3 | embed | past · passive | some of the pillars | the rocks | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: some=Theme in which=Destination | ||||
| 4 | uphold | past | the pillars | the heavens | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | break | past · passive | one of this pillars | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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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