The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 25, sentence 82
“In order to reach it you must cross the Blue River, the White River, the Red River, and the Black River, all of which are full of monstrous fishes.
Who acts: you, all · What happens: reach, cross, be · To what, where: idea, Blue River
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 (you, all), 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 | _ | 5 reach | punct |
| 2 | In | in | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 5 reach | mark |
| 3 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 In | fixed |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 reach | mark |
| 5 | reach | reach | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 reach | obj |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 cross | nsubj |
| 8 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 cross | aux |
| 9 | cross | cross | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 reach | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 River | det |
| 11 | Blue | Blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 River | amod |
| 12 | River | River | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 cross | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 River | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 River | det |
| 15 | White | White | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 River | compound |
| 16 | River | River | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 River | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 River | punct |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 River | det |
| 19 | Red | Red | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 River | flat |
| 20 | River | River | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 River | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 River | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 River | cc |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 River | det |
| 24 | Black | Black | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 River | compound |
| 25 | River | River | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 reach | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 full | punct |
| 27 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 31 full | nsubj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 which | case |
| 29 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 all | nmod |
| 30 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 full | cop |
| 31 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 River | amod |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 fishes | case |
| 33 | monstrous | monstrous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 fishes | amod |
| 34 | fishes | fish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 full | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 reach | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach in a quote | to-infinitive | idea | the Black River obj | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent it=Beneficiary river=Theme | ||||
| 2 | cross in a quote | must | you | the Blue River and the White River and the Red River | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent river=Patient | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | all | of monstrous fishes; full 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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