The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 24, sentence 132
One morning Bantugan looked out and saw at the mouth of the Rio Grande the enormous fleet of the Spaniards whose numbers were so great that in no direction could the horizon be seen.
Who acts: Bantugan · What happens: look out, see, be · To what, where: mouth, horizon, direction
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bantugan), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 morning | nummod |
| 2 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 looked | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | Bantugan | Bantugan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 looked | nsubj |
| 4 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 looked | compound:prt |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 saw | cc |
| 7 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 looked | conj |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 mouth | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 mouth | det |
| 10 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 saw | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Grande | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Grande | det |
| 13 | Rio | Rio | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Grande | compound |
| 14 | Grande | Grande | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 mouth | nmod |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 fleet | det |
| 16 | enormous | enormous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 fleet | amod |
| 17 | fleet | fleet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 Grande | appos |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Spaniards | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Spaniards | det |
| 20 | Spaniards | Spaniard | PROPN | Number=Plur | 17 fleet | nmod |
| 21 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 22 numbers | nmod:poss |
| 22 | numbers | number | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 Spaniards | obj |
| 23 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 great | cop |
| 24 | so | so | ADV | _ | 25 great | advmod |
| 25 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 looked | conj |
| 26 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 34 seen | mark |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 direction | case |
| 28 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 29 direction | det |
| 29 | direction | direction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 seen | obl |
| 30 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 34 seen | aux |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 horizon | det |
| 32 | horizon | horizon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 seen | nsubj:pass |
| 33 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 34 seen | aux:pass |
| 34 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 great | advcl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look out | past | Bantugan | morning | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | see | past | Bantugan not said here | the mouth of the Rio Grande | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | is | past | Bantugan not said here | great property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | see | could · passive | the horizon | no direction | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
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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