The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 23, sentence 35
The rivers poured over the cloud rock, until there was not a spark left alight, and rushed down through the sky into the sea below.
Who acts: rivers, spark · What happens: pour, be, leave, rush down · To what, where: cloud rock, spark, 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 (rivers, spark), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 rivers | det |
| 2 | rivers | river | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 poured | nsubj |
| 3 | poured | pour | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | over | over | ADP | _ | 7 rock | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 rock | det |
| 6 | cloud | cloud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 rock | compound |
| 7 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 poured | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 was | punct |
| 9 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 11 was | mark |
| 10 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 11 was | expl |
| 11 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 poured | conj |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 spark | advmod |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 spark | det |
| 14 | spark | spark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 was | nsubj |
| 15 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 spark | acl |
| 16 | alight | alight | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 left | xcomp |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 rushed | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 rushed | cc |
| 19 | rushed | rush | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 poured | parataxis |
| 20 | down | down | ADP | _ | 19 rushed | compound:prt |
| 21 | through | through | ADP | _ | 23 sky | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 sky | det |
| 23 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 rushed | obl |
| 24 | into | into | ADP | _ | 26 sea | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 sea | det |
| 26 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 rushed | obl |
| 27 | below | below | ADV | _ | 26 sea | advmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 poured | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pour | past | the rivers | the cloud rock | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over rock=Location | ||||
| 2 | be | past | a spark | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | leave | participle | a spark not said here | alight property | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | rush down | participle | the sky | into the sea result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into sea=Result |
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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