The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 25, sentence 13
On this thickly wooded island are found white monkeys, the servants of the Princess, who still lives in the center of the mountain.
Who acts: Princess · What happens: wood, find, live · To what, where: white monkeys, thickly wooded island, center
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 (Princess), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 5 island | case |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 island | nsubj |
| 3 | thickly | thickly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 island | amod |
| 4 | wooded | wood | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 island | amod |
| 5 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 found | obl |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 found | aux:pass |
| 7 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 monkeys | amod |
| 9 | monkeys | monkey | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 found | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 servants | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 servants | det |
| 12 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 found | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Princess | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Princess | det |
| 15 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 servants | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 lives | punct |
| 17 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 lives | nsubj |
| 18 | still | still | ADV | _ | 19 lives | advmod |
| 19 | lives | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 Princess | acl:relcl |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 center | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 center | det |
| 22 | center | center | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 lives | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 mountain | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 mountain | det |
| 25 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 center | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wood | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | find | present · passive | white monkeys | thickly wooded island this | the servants of the Princess obl | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: monkey=Topic | |||
| 3 | live | present | the Princess | the center of the mountain | still | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in center=Location |
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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