The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 23, sentence 20
So Wang Chih sat on the white crane’s back, and was taken up and up through the sky to the cloud-cave where the sky-dragon lived.
Who acts: Wang, sky dragon · What happens: sit, take up, live · To what, where: sky
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wang, sky dragon), 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 sat | advmod |
| 2 | Wang | Wang | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 sat | nsubj |
| 3 | Chih | Chih | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Wang | flat |
| 4 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 crane | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 crane | det |
| 7 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 crane | amod |
| 8 | crane | crane | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 ’s | obl |
| 9 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 sat | conj |
| 10 | back | back | ADV | _ | 9 ’s | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 taken | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 taken | cc |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 taken | aux:pass |
| 14 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 sat | conj |
| 15 | up | up | ADP | _ | 14 taken | compound:prt |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 up | cc |
| 17 | up | up | ADV | _ | 14 taken | conj |
| 18 | through | through | ADP | _ | 20 sky | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 sky | det |
| 20 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 taken | obl |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 cave | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 cave | det |
| 23 | cloud | cloud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 cave | compound |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 cloud | punct |
| 25 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 taken | obl |
| 26 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 31 lived | advmod |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 dragon | det |
| 28 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 dragon | compound |
| 29 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 28 sky | punct |
| 30 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 lived | nsubj |
| 31 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 cave | acl:relcl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past | Wang | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | take up | past · passive | Wang not said here | the sky | to the cloud cave result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: to cave=Result | |||
| 3 | live | past | the sky dragon | vn exist-47.1-1 «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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