The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 25, sentence 99
Very soon he reached the White River, which was half a mile wide, and so rapid that it was covered with foam, and full of immense sea-serpents.
Who acts: Pei, White River · What happens: reach, be, cover · To what, where: White River, mile, head
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, White River), 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 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 reached | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 reached | nsubj |
| 4 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 River | det |
| 6 | White | White | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 River | compound |
| 7 | River | River | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 reached | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 mile | punct |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 mile | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 mile | cop |
| 11 | half | half | DET | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind | 13 mile | det:predet |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 mile | det |
| 13 | mile | mile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 River | parataxis |
| 14 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 mile | amod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 rapid | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 rapid | cc |
| 17 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 rapid | advmod |
| 18 | rapid | rapid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 reached | conj |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 covered | mark |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 covered | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 covered | aux:pass |
| 22 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 rapid | advcl |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 foam | case |
| 24 | foam | foam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 covered | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 full | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 full | cc |
| 27 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 reached | conj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 serpents | case |
| 29 | immense | immense | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 serpents | amod |
| 30 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 serpents | compound |
| 31 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 30 sea | punct |
| 32 | serpents | serpent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 full | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 reached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | Pei | the White River | soon property | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent river=Theme | |||
| 2 | is a | past | the White River | half mile | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | cover | past · passive | head | with foam | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with foam=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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