The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 25, sentence 89
The river will then shrink to the size of a small brook, over which you can jump.”
Who acts: river, you · What happens: shrink, jump
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 (river, you), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 river | det |
| 2 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 shrink | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 shrink | aux |
| 4 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 shrink | advmod |
| 5 | shrink | shrink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 size | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 size | det |
| 8 | size | size | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 shrink | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 brook | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 brook | det |
| 11 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 brook | amod |
| 12 | brook | brook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 size | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 jump | punct |
| 14 | over | over | ADP | _ | 15 which | case |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 jump | obl |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 jump | nsubj |
| 17 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 jump | aux |
| 18 | jump | jump | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 shrink | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 shrink | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 shrink | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shrink | future | the river | then | to the size of a small brook result | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent to size=Result | |||
| 2 | jump | can | you | which obl | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over which=Trajectory |
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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