The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 25, sentence 101
Stepping across this, Pei-Hang walked on for some time until he came in sight of the Red River, which was three-quarters of a mile wide, and bright scarlet.
Who acts: Pei, Red River · What happens: step, walk, come, be, sight · To what, where: this, bright scarlet, sight, three quarters, Red River
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 (Pei, Red River), 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 | Stepping | step | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 walked | advcl |
| 2 | across | across | ADP | _ | 3 this | case |
| 3 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 1 Stepping | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Stepping | punct |
| 5 | Pei | Pei | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 walked | nsubj |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 Pei | punct |
| 7 | Hang | Hang | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Pei | flat |
| 8 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 time | case |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 time | case |
| 11 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 time | det |
| 12 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 walked | obl |
| 13 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 15 came | mark |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 came | nsubj |
| 15 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 walked | advcl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 sight | case |
| 17 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 came | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 River | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 River | det |
| 20 | Red | Red | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 River | flat |
| 21 | River | River | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 sight | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 quarters | punct |
| 23 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 quarters | nsubj |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 quarters | cop |
| 25 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 27 quarters | nummod |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 three | punct |
| 27 | quarters | quarter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 River | conj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 mile | case |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 mile | det |
| 30 | mile | mile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 quarters | nmod |
| 31 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 mile | amod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 scarlet | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 scarlet | cc |
| 34 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 scarlet | amod |
| 35 | scarlet | scarlet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 came | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 walked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | step | gerund | Pei not said here | this | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across this=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | walk | past | Pei | time | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | come | past | Pei | bright scarlet | sight of the Red River and three quarters | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sight=Location | |||
| 4 | is a | past | the Red River and three quarters | three quarters | of a mile | tree rules | |||
| 5 | sight | the Red River and three quarters | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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