The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 25, sentence 14
On a quiet day high up on the mountain side one can hear the chanting and singing of the waiting-girls of the wife of Bantugan.
Who acts: one · What happens: hear, sing · To what, where: chanting, mountain side
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 (one), 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 | _ | 4 day | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 day | det |
| 3 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 day | amod |
| 4 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 hear | obl |
| 5 | high | high | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 up | advmod |
| 6 | up | up | ADV | _ | 4 day | advmod |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 side | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 side | det |
| 9 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 side | compound |
| 10 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 hear | obl |
| 11 | one | one | PRON | Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 hear | nsubj |
| 12 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 hear | aux |
| 13 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 chanting | det |
| 15 | chanting | chanting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 hear | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 singing | cc |
| 17 | singing | sing | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 chanting | conj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 girls | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 girls | det |
| 20 | waiting | waiting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 girls | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 waiting | punct |
| 22 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 singing | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 wife | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 wife | det |
| 25 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 girls | nmod |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 Bantugan | case |
| 27 | Bantugan | Bantugan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 wife | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 hear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | can | one | the chanting | the mountain side | day | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer chanting=Stimulus | ||
| 2 | sing speech: express | gerund | one not said here | of the waiting girls of the wife of Bantugan | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=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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