The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 20, sentence 89
“The storm beats fierce and loud The clouds rise thick in the West; What ails thy grave and shroud, Oh, corpse!
Who acts: storm, clouds · What happens: beat, lou, rise, ail · To what, where: grave · 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 (storm, clouds), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 beats | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 storm | det |
| 3 | storm | storm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 beats | nsubj |
| 4 | beats | beat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | fierce | fierce | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 beats | xcomp |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 loud | cc |
| 7 | loud | lou | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 beats | conj |
| 8 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 clouds | det |
| 9 | clouds | cloud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 rise | nsubj |
| 10 | rise | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 loud | ccomp |
| 11 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 rise | xcomp |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 West | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 West | det |
| 14 | West | West | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 thick | obl |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 ails | punct |
| 16 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 17 ails | nsubj |
| 17 | ails | ail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 beats | conj |
| 18 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 19 grave | nmod:poss |
| 19 | grave | grave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 ails | obj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 shroud | cc |
| 21 | shroud | shroud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 grave | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 Oh | punct |
| 23 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 17 ails | discourse |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 corpse | punct |
| 25 | corpse | corpse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 Oh | vocative |
| 26 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 beats | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beat in a quote | present | the storm | fierce property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | lou in a quote | past | the storm not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | rise in a quote | present | the clouds | thick property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | ail in a quote | present | thy grave and shroud | What nsubj | vn pain-40.8.1 «NP V NP.experiencer»: agent=Patient grave=Experiencer |
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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