The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 25, sentence 81
“That is Mount Sumi,” she said, “and it is there the Genii live, sitting on the snow-peaks, and looking down at the Lake of Gems.”
Who acts: That, Mount, Genii · What happens: be, say, sit, look down · To what, where: Mount, snow peaks · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (That, Mount, Genii), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 Mount | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 Mount | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 Mount | cop |
| 4 | Mount | Mount | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 5 | Sumi | Sumi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Mount | flat |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Mount | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 Mount | punct |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 said | nsubj |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 is | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 is | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 is | cc |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 is | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 live | cop |
| 15 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 14 is | expl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Genii | det |
| 17 | Genii | Genii | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 live | nsubj |
| 18 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | ccomp |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 sitting | punct |
| 20 | sitting | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 said | ccomp |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 peaks | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 peaks | det |
| 23 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 peaks | compound |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 snow | punct |
| 25 | peaks | peak | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 sitting | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 looking | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 looking | cc |
| 28 | looking | look | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 sitting | conj |
| 29 | down | down | ADV | _ | 28 looking | advmod |
| 30 | at | at | ADP | _ | 32 Lake | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 Lake | det |
| 32 | Lake | Lake | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 looking | obl |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 Gems | case |
| 34 | Gems | Gem | PROPN | Number=Plur | 32 Lake | nmod |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 28 looking | punct |
| 36 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 sitting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | That | Mount | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Mount | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | the Genii | live property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | sit in a quote | gerund | the snow peaks | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on peak=Location | |||||
| 5 | look down in a quote | gerund | at the Lake of Gems; down property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at lake=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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