The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 20, sentence 32
With Shiku’s magic help she then mounted the clouds, taking the cement with her, and having reached that corner of the sky which was broken, she mended it.
Who acts: damage · What happens: help, mount, take, reach, break, mend · To what, where: clouds, cement, corner, sky
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 (damage), 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 | _ | 4 magic | case |
| 2 | Shiku | Shiku | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 magic | nmod:poss |
| 3 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 2 Shiku | case |
| 4 | magic | magic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 help | obl |
| 5 | help | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 mounted | nsubj |
| 7 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 mounted | advmod |
| 8 | mounted | mount | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 help | ccomp |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 clouds | det |
| 10 | clouds | cloud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 mounted | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 taking | punct |
| 12 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 help | advcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 cement | det |
| 14 | cement | cement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 taking | obj |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 her | case |
| 16 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 taking | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 reached | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 reached | cc |
| 19 | having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 reached | aux |
| 20 | reached | reach | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 help | parataxis |
| 21 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 corner | det |
| 22 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 reached | obj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 sky | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 sky | det |
| 25 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 corner | nmod |
| 26 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 broken | nsubj:pass |
| 27 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 broken | aux:pass |
| 28 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 sky | acl:relcl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 mended | punct |
| 30 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 mended | nsubj |
| 31 | mended | mend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 reached | conj |
| 32 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 mended | obj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 help | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help | present | with Shiku's magic | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | mount | past | damage | the clouds | then | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cloud=Patient | |||
| 3 | take | gerund | the cement | with damage | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cement=Theme | ||||
| 4 | reach | gerund · perfect | that corner of the sky | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent corner=Theme | |||||
| 5 | break | past · passive | the sky | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 6 | mend | past | damage | cement | tree rules |
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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