The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 20, sentence 36
But the sun and moon were millions of miles away, and the problem was how to reach them.
Who acts: sun, problem · What happens: be
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 (sun, problem), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 were | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 sun | det |
| 3 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 were | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 moon | cc |
| 5 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sun | conj |
| 6 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | millions | million | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 were | nsubj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 miles | case |
| 9 | miles | mile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 millions | nmod |
| 10 | away | away | ADV | _ | 6 were | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 reach | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 reach | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 problem | det |
| 14 | problem | problem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 reach | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 reach | cop |
| 16 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 reach | advmod |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 reach | mark |
| 18 | reach | reach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 were | advcl |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 reach | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 were | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | the sun and moon | millions of miles nsubj; away property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the problem | millions = million obj; reach property | 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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