The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 23, sentence 40
But, of course, it was nothing of the kind; it was only the sky-dragon putting out the fire Wang Chih had kindled.
Who acts: storm, sky dragon, Wang · What happens: be, put out, kindle · To what, where: sky dragon, fire
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 (storm, sky dragon, Wang), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 nothing | cc |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 nothing | punct |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 nothing | case |
| 4 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 of | fixed |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 of | punct |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 nothing | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 nothing | cop |
| 8 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | root | root |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 kind | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 kind | det |
| 11 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 nothing | nmod |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 dragon | punct |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 dragon | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 dragon | cop |
| 15 | only | only | ADV | _ | 19 dragon | advmod |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 dragon | det |
| 17 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 dragon | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 sky | punct |
| 19 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 nothing | appos |
| 20 | putting | put | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 dragon | acl |
| 21 | out | out | ADP | _ | 20 putting | compound:prt |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 fire | det |
| 23 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 putting | obj |
| 24 | Wang | Wang | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 kindled | nsubj |
| 25 | Chih | Chih | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Wang | flat |
| 26 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 kindled | aux |
| 27 | kindled | kindle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 putting | advcl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 nothing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | storm | of nothing; of the kind | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | storm | the sky dragon | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | put out | gerund | the sky dragon not said here | the fire | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent fire=Goal | ||||
| 4 | kindle | past · perfect | Wang | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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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