The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 24, sentence 51
After many days the weary lad came to a high rock in the road, which glistened in the sunlight.
Who acts: weary lad · What happens: come, glisten · To what, where: high rock, road, sunlight
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 (weary lad), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 days | case |
| 2 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 days | amod |
| 3 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 came | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 lad | det |
| 5 | weary | weary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 lad | amod |
| 6 | lad | lad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 came | nsubj |
| 7 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 rock | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 rock | det |
| 10 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 rock | amod |
| 11 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 came | obl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 road | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 road | det |
| 14 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 rock | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 glistened | punct |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 glistened | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | glistened | glisten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 road | acl |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 sunlight | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 sunlight | det |
| 20 | sunlight | sunlight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 glistened | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the weary lad | a high rock in the road | day | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to rock=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | glisten | participle · passive | the road | the sunlight | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=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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