The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 23, sentence 39
There is a fine rain-storm out at sea!” they said to each other.
Who acts: fine rain storm, people · What happens: be, say · To what, where: each · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (fine rain storm, people), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 is | expl |
| 2 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 storm | det |
| 4 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 storm | amod |
| 5 | rain | rain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 storm | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 rain | punct |
| 7 | storm | storm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 is | nsubj |
| 8 | out | out | ADP | _ | 7 storm | compound:prt |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 sea | case |
| 10 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 storm | nmod |
| 11 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 storm | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 is | punct |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 said | nsubj |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 is | parataxis |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 each | case |
| 16 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 14 said | obl |
| 17 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 each | fixed |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | a fine rain storm at sea | there | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | people | each | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to each=Recipient |
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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