The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 25, sentence 96

On the seventh day he came to the Blue River, which was a quarter of a mile wide, and as blue as the sky of summer, and fishes were popping their heads out of the water in every direction.

Who acts: Pei, Blue River, fishes · What happens: come, be, pop · To what, where: Blue River, quarter, heads, water

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 (Pei, Blue River, fishes), 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	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 day	det
3	seventh	seventh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 day	amod
4	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 came	obl
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 came	nsubj
6	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	10 River	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 River	det
9	Blue	Blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 River	amod
10	River	River	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 came	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 quarter	punct
12	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 quarter	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 quarter	cop
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 quarter	det
15	quarter	quarter	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 River	appos
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 mile	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 mile	det
18	mile	mile	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 quarter	nmod
19	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 quarter	amod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 blue	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 blue	cc
22	as	as	ADV	_	23 blue	advmod
23	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 came	conj
24	as	as	ADP	_	26 sky	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 sky	det
26	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 blue	obl
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 summer	case
28	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 sky	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 popping	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 popping	cc
31	fishes	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 popping	nsubj
32	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 popping	aux
33	popping	pop	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 came	advcl
34	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 heads	nmod:poss
35	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 popping	obj
36	out	out	ADP	_	39 water	case
37	of	of	ADP	_	39 water	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 water	det
39	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 popping	obl
40	in	in	ADP	_	42 direction	case
41	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	42 direction	det
42	direction	direction	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 popping	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	Pei		the Blue River	day		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to river=Initial_Location
2	is a	past	the Blue River	a quarter			of a mile	tree rules
3	pop	past · progressive	fishes	fishes's heads	the water		in every direction	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient

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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🌲 The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 25, sentence 96

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The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 25, sentence 96