The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 22, sentence 102
So Wang Chih went down as quickly as he could from the mountain, and found the fields where he had worked covered with houses, and a busy town where his own little village had been.
Who acts: Wang, own little village · What happens: go down, find, work, cover, be · To what, where: fields
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wang, own little village), 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 went | advmod |
| 2 | Wang | Wang | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 went | nsubj |
| 3 | Chih | Chih | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Wang | flat |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | down | down | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 6 | as | as | ADV | _ | 7 quickly | advmod |
| 7 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 could | mark |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 could | nsubj |
| 10 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 quickly | advcl |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 mountain | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 mountain | det |
| 13 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 could | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 found | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 found | cc |
| 16 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 fields | det |
| 18 | fields | field | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 found | obj |
| 19 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 22 worked | advmod |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 worked | nsubj |
| 21 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 worked | aux |
| 22 | worked | work | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 fields | acl:relcl |
| 23 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 worked | xcomp |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 houses | case |
| 25 | houses | house | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 covered | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 town | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 town | cc |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 town | det |
| 29 | busy | busy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 town | amod |
| 30 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | parataxis |
| 31 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 37 been | advmod |
| 32 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 village | nmod:poss |
| 33 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 village | amod |
| 34 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 village | amod |
| 35 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 been | nsubj |
| 36 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 been | aux |
| 37 | been | be | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 30 town | advcl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go down | past | Wang | a busy town parataxis; down, quickly property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | find | past | Wang not said here | the fields | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent field=Topic | ||||
| 3 | work | past · perfect | Wang | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | cover | participle | Wang not said here | with houses | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with house=Theme | ||||
| 5 | be | past · perfect | Wang's own little village | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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