The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 23, sentence 49
Here he was up in the moon, and yet he could have thrown a stone into the busy street of the Chinese town below his window.
Who acts: Wang · What happens: be, throw · To what, where: moon, Wang, busy street
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), 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 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 moon | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 moon | cop |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 was | compound:prt |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 moon | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 moon | det |
| 7 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Here | parataxis |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 thrown | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 thrown | cc |
| 10 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 14 thrown | advmod |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 thrown | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 thrown | aux |
| 13 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 thrown | aux |
| 14 | thrown | throw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Here | conj |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 stone | det |
| 16 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 thrown | obj |
| 17 | into | into | ADP | _ | 20 street | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 street | det |
| 19 | busy | busy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 street | amod |
| 20 | street | street | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 thrown | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 town | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 town | det |
| 23 | Chinese | Chinese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 town | amod |
| 24 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 street | nmod |
| 25 | below | below | ADP | _ | 27 window | case |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 window | nmod:poss |
| 27 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 town | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Here | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Wang | the moon | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | throw | could · perfect · passive | Wang | the busy street of the Chinese town below Wang's window | yet | a stone obj | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Destination stone=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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