The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 20, sentence 84
And as he journeyed there came a fierce storm of thunder and lightning, so that he sought shelter, and found none save an old graveyard, where a headless corpse lay upon the ground.
Who acts: Rasalu, fierce storm, none, headless corpse, thunder · What happens: journey, come, seek, find, save, lay · To what, where: shelter, old graveyard, ground · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Rasalu, fierce storm, none, headless corpse), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 came | cc |
| 2 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 journeyed | mark |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 journeyed | nsubj |
| 4 | journeyed | journey | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 came | advcl |
| 5 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 journeyed | advmod |
| 6 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 storm | det |
| 8 | fierce | fierce | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 storm | amod |
| 9 | storm | storm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 came | nsubj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 thunder | case |
| 11 | thunder | thunder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 storm | nmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 lightning | cc |
| 13 | lightning | lightning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 thunder | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 sought | punct |
| 15 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 18 sought | mark |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 so | fixed |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 sought | nsubj |
| 18 | sought | seek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 came | conj |
| 19 | shelter | shelter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 sought | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 found | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 found | cc |
| 22 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 came | conj |
| 23 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 24 save | nsubj |
| 24 | save | save | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 found | ccomp |
| 25 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 graveyard | det |
| 26 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 graveyard | amod |
| 27 | graveyard | graveyard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 save | obj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 lay | punct |
| 29 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 33 lay | advmod |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 corpse | det |
| 31 | headless | headless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 corpse | amod |
| 32 | corpse | corpse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 lay | nsubj |
| 33 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 save | advcl |
| 34 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 36 ground | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 ground | det |
| 36 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 lay | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | journey | past | Rasalu | there | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | come | past | a fierce storm of thunder and lightning | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | seek | past | Rasalu | shelter | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shelter=Theme | ||||
| 4 | find | past | a fierce storm of thunder and lightning not said here | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | save | infinitive | none | a old graveyard | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent graveyard=Theme | ||||
| 6 | lay | present | a headless corpse | the ground | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent upon ground=Destination | ||||
| 7 | storm | thunder and lightning | nom storm «phenomenon intransitive»: of=agent |
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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