The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 25, sentence 102
Stretched right across it, like a bridge, was a row of huge alligators, each of which had its mouth wide open.
Who acts: bridge, each · What happens: stretch, be, have · To what, where: row, mouth
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 (bridge, each), 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 | Stretched | stretch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 bridge | advcl |
| 2 | right | right | ADV | _ | 1 Stretched | advmod |
| 3 | across | across | ADP | _ | 4 it | case |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Stretched | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 bridge | punct |
| 6 | like | like | ADP | _ | 8 bridge | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 bridge | det |
| 8 | bridge | bridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 row | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 bridge | punct |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 row | cop |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 row | det |
| 12 | row | row | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 alligators | case |
| 14 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 alligators | amod |
| 15 | alligators | alligator | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 row | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 had | punct |
| 17 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 had | nsubj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 which | case |
| 19 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 had | nsubj |
| 20 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 row | conj |
| 21 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 22 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 had | obj |
| 23 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 open | advmod |
| 24 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 had | xcomp |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 row | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stretch | participle | a bridge not said here | across mile; right property | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across it=Location | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | a bridge | a row | of huge alligators | tree rules | |||
| 3 | have | past | each | mile's mouth | a row nsubj; open property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouth=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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