The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 20, sentence 85
So lonesome was it that even the corpse seemed company, and Rasalu, sitting down beside it, said:
Who acts: lonesome · What happens: be, seem, sit down, say · To what, where: ground, company, corpse · 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 (lonesome), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 9 seemed | advmod |
| 2 | lonesome | lonesome | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 seemed | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 it | cop |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 lonesome | conj |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 seemed | mark |
| 6 | even | even | ADV | _ | 8 corpse | advmod |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 corpse | det |
| 8 | corpse | corpse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 seemed | nsubj |
| 9 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 said | advcl |
| 10 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 seemed | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Rasalu | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 Rasalu | cc |
| 13 | Rasalu | Rasalu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 seemed | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 sitting | punct |
| 15 | sitting | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 seemed | xcomp |
| 16 | down | down | ADV | _ | 15 sitting | advmod |
| 17 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 18 it | case |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 sitting | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 said | punct |
| 20 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 21 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 20 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | lonesome not said here | ground | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | seem | past | lonesome | company | Rasalu obl; the corpse nsubj | tree rules | |||
| 3 | sit down | gerund | lonesome not said here | corpse | down property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beside it=Location | |||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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