The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 20, sentence 27
Fire was bursting out from the mountain in which was the broken pillar, and was doing great damage to the country round about.
Who acts: Fire, mountain · What happens: burst out, break, be, do · To what, where: mountain, broken pillar, great damage
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 (Fire, mountain), 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 | Fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bursting | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 bursting | aux |
| 3 | bursting | burst | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 bursting | compound:prt |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 mountain | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 mountain | det |
| 7 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bursting | obl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 pillar | case |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 pillar | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 pillar | cop |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 pillar | det |
| 12 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 pillar | amod |
| 13 | pillar | pillar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 mountain | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 doing | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 doing | cc |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 doing | aux |
| 17 | doing | do | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 bursting | conj |
| 18 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 damage | amod |
| 19 | damage | damage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 doing | obj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 country | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 country | det |
| 22 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 doing | obl |
| 23 | round | round | ADP | _ | 24 about | case |
| 24 | about | about | ADV | _ | 17 doing | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 bursting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | burst out | past · progressive | Fire | the mountain | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | break | participle | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | is | past | the mountain | the broken pillar | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | do | past · progressive | Fire not said here | great damage | to the country | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent damage=Eventuality |
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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