The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 23, sentence 37

As it was, the people on the coast looked out across the water toward Japan, and saw three inky-black clouds stretching from the sky into the sea.

Who acts: mischief, people, three inky black clouds · What happens: be, look out, see, stretch · To what, where: water, three inky black clouds, 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 (mischief, people, three inky black 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	3 was	mark
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 was	nsubj
3	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 looked	advcl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 was	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 people	det
6	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 looked	nsubj
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 coast	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 coast	det
9	coast	coast	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 people	nmod
10	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	out	out	ADP	_	10 looked	compound:prt
12	across	across	ADP	_	14 water	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 water	det
14	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 looked	obl
15	toward	toward	ADP	_	16 Japan	case
16	Japan	Japan	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 water	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 saw	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 saw	cc
19	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 looked	conj
20	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 clouds	nummod
21	inky	inky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 clouds	amod
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 inky	punct
23	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 clouds	amod
24	clouds	cloud	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 saw	obj
25	stretching	stretch	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	24 clouds	acl
26	from	from	ADP	_	28 sky	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 sky	det
28	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 stretching	obl
29	into	into	ADP	_	31 sea	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 sea	det
31	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 stretching	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	mischief				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	look out	past	the people on the coast		the water toward Japan		vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
3	see	past	the people on the coast not said here	three inky black clouds			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cloud=Stimulus
4	stretch	gerund	three inky black clouds not said here		the sky	into the sea	vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from sky=Location

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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🌲 The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 23, sentence 37

The tree

Pragmatics

The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 23, sentence 37