The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 25, sentence 104
The seed sank into the water, and there before him was a small stream less than two feet across, and at the bottom of it a row of tiny lizards.
Who acts: seed, Hang · What happens: sink, be · To what, where: water, small stream
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 (seed, Hang), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 seed | det |
| 2 | seed | seed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sank | nsubj |
| 3 | sank | sink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 water | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 water | det |
| 6 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sank | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 there | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 there | cc |
| 9 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 sank | parataxis |
| 10 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 15 stream | mark |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 stream | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 stream | cop |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 stream | det |
| 14 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 stream | amod |
| 15 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 there | advcl |
| 16 | less | less | ADJ | Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV | 18 two | advmod |
| 17 | than | than | ADP | _ | 16 less | fixed |
| 18 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 feet | nummod |
| 19 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 across | obl |
| 20 | across | across | ADV | _ | 15 stream | advmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 bottom | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 bottom | cc |
| 23 | at | at | ADP | _ | 25 bottom | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 bottom | det |
| 25 | bottom | bottom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sank | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 it | case |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 bottom | nmod |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 row | det |
| 29 | row | row | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 bottom | appos |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 lizards | case |
| 31 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 lizards | amod |
| 32 | lizards | lizard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 row | nmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sank | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sink | past | the seed | the water | at the bottom of bottom | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||
| 2 | is a | past | Hang | a small stream | across property | tree rules |
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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