The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 24, sentence 45
Immediately the air became as black as night and stones rained down as large as houses.
Who acts: air · What happens: become, rain down · To what, where: stones
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 (air), 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 | Immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 4 became | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 air | det |
| 3 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 became | nsubj |
| 4 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | as | as | ADV | _ | 6 black | advmod |
| 6 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 became | xcomp |
| 7 | as | as | ADP | _ | 8 night | case |
| 8 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 black | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 stones | cc |
| 10 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 night | conj |
| 11 | rained | rain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 stones | acl |
| 12 | down | down | ADP | _ | 11 rained | compound:prt |
| 13 | as | as | ADV | _ | 14 large | advmod |
| 14 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 rained | xcomp |
| 15 | as | as | ADP | _ | 16 houses | case |
| 16 | houses | house | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 large | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 became | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | past | the air | black, immediately property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | rain down | participle | stones not said here | large property | vn weather-57 «It V PP.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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