The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 25, sentence 12
In a few hours her ship also was sunk, and in the place where it sank there arose the mountain of Timaco.
Who acts: ship, place · What happens: be, sink, arise · To what, where: mountain
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 (ship, place), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 hours | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 hours | det |
| 3 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 hours | amod |
| 4 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 sunk | obl |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 ship | nmod:poss |
| 6 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sunk | nsubj |
| 7 | also | also | ADV | _ | 9 sunk | advmod |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 sunk | cop |
| 9 | sunk | sunk | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 place | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 place | cc |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 place | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 place | det |
| 14 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 arose | nsubj |
| 15 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 17 sank | advmod |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 sank | nsubj |
| 17 | sank | sink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 place | advcl |
| 18 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 sank | advmod |
| 19 | arose | arise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 sunk | parataxis |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 mountain | det |
| 21 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 arose | obj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 Timaco | case |
| 23 | Timaco | Timaco | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 mountain | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 sunk | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | wife's ship | hour | sunk property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | sink | past | place | there | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | arise | past | the place | the mountain of Timaco | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location mountain=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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