The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 20, sentence 96
So the night passed on, dark and dreary, while Rasalu sat in the graveyard and talked to the headless corpse.
Who acts: Rasalu · What happens: pass on, sit, talk · To what, where: graveyard
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), 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 | _ | 4 passed | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 night | det |
| 3 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 passed | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 4 passed | compound:prt |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 dark | punct |
| 7 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 passed | parataxis |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 dreary | cc |
| 9 | dreary | dreary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 dark | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 sat | punct |
| 11 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 13 sat | mark |
| 12 | Rasalu | Rasalu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 sat | nsubj |
| 13 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 passed | parataxis |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 graveyard | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 graveyard | det |
| 16 | graveyard | graveyard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sat | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 talked | cc |
| 18 | talked | talk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 sat | conj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 corpse | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 corpse | det |
| 21 | headless | headless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 corpse | amod |
| 22 | corpse | corpse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 talked | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass on | participle | night | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | sit | past | Rasalu | the graveyard | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in graveyard=Location | ||||
| 3 | talk | past | Rasalu not said here | to the headless corpse | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to corpse=Co-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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