The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 25, sentence 100
This river was so wide that Pei-Hang was really surprised when, on throwing another of the red seeds into it, there lay before him a tiny brook, in the bottom of which some eels were wriggling.
Who acts: river, Pei, eels · What happens: be, throw, lay, wriggle · To what, where: another, head, tiny brook, bottom
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (river, Pei, eels), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 river | det |
| 2 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wide | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 wide | cop |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 wide | advmod |
| 5 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 surprised | mark |
| 7 | Pei | Pei | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 surprised | nsubj |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 Pei | punct |
| 9 | Hang | Hang | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Pei | flat |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 surprised | cop |
| 11 | really | really | ADV | _ | 12 surprised | advmod |
| 12 | surprised | surprised | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 wide | advcl |
| 13 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 throwing | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 throwing | punct |
| 15 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 16 throwing | mark |
| 16 | throwing | throw | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 surprised | advcl |
| 17 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 16 throwing | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 seeds | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 seeds | det |
| 20 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 seeds | amod |
| 21 | seeds | seed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 another | nmod |
| 22 | into | into | ADP | _ | 23 it | case |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 throwing | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 lay | punct |
| 25 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 26 lay | expl |
| 26 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 wide | conj |
| 27 | before | before | ADP | _ | 28 him | case |
| 28 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 lay | obl |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 brook | det |
| 30 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 brook | amod |
| 31 | brook | brook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 lay | obl:unmarked |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 bottom | punct |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 bottom | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 bottom | det |
| 35 | bottom | bottom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 lay | obl |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 which | case |
| 37 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 41 wriggling | obl |
| 38 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 39 eels | det |
| 39 | eels | eel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 wriggling | nsubj |
| 40 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 wriggling | aux |
| 41 | wriggling | wriggle | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 35 bottom | acl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 wide | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | this river | wide property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | Pei | surprised property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | throw | gerund | Pei not said here | another of the red seeds | head | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer another=Theme into it=Result | |||
| 4 | lay | present | this river not said here | a tiny brook | the bottom; there | before Pei | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent before he=Destination | ||
| 5 | wriggle | past · progressive | some eels | of the bottom | vn body_internal_motion-49.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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