The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 24, sentence 39
Before the Spaniards occupied the island of Mindanao, there lived in the valley of the Rio Grande a very strong man, Bantugan, whose father was the brother of the earthquake and thunder.
Who acts: Spaniards, father · What happens: occupy, live, be · To what, where: island, strong man, valley, brother
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 (Spaniards, father), 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 | Before | before | SCONJ | _ | 4 occupied | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Spaniards | det |
| 3 | Spaniards | Spaniard | PROPN | Number=Plur | 4 occupied | nsubj |
| 4 | occupied | occupy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 lived | advcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 island | det |
| 6 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 occupied | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Mindanao | case |
| 8 | Mindanao | Mindanao | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 island | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 occupied | punct |
| 10 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 11 lived | expl |
| 11 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 valley | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 valley | det |
| 14 | valley | valley | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 lived | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Grande | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Grande | det |
| 17 | Rio | Rio | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Grande | compound |
| 18 | Grande | Grande | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 valley | nmod |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 man | det |
| 20 | very | very | ADV | _ | 21 strong | advmod |
| 21 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 man | amod |
| 22 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 lived | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 Bantugan | punct |
| 24 | Bantugan | Bantugan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 man | appos |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 brother | punct |
| 26 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 27 father | nmod:poss |
| 27 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 brother | nsubj |
| 28 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 brother | cop |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 brother | det |
| 30 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 Bantugan | appos |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 earthquake | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 earthquake | det |
| 33 | earthquake | earthquake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 brother | nmod |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 thunder | cc |
| 35 | thunder | thunder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 earthquake | conj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | occupy | past | the Spaniards | the island of Mindanao | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus island=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | live | past | a strong man | the valley of the Rio Grande; there | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme man=Location | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | the brother's father | the brother | of the earthquake and thunder | tree rules |
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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