The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 26, sentence 1
To the Geni’s astonishment the river immediately dried up, and a shallow stream running through the grass lay at their feet.
Who acts: shallow stream, Geni · What happens: dry up, run, lay, astonish · To what, where: river, grass, feet
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (shallow stream, Geni), 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 | To | to | ADP | _ | 5 astonishment | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Geni | det |
| 3 | Geni | Geni | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 astonishment | nmod:poss |
| 4 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 3 Geni | case |
| 5 | astonishment | astonishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 dried | obl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 river | det |
| 7 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 dried | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 9 dried | advmod |
| 9 | dried | dry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 dried | compound:prt |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 lay | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 lay | cc |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 stream | det |
| 14 | shallow | shallow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 stream | amod |
| 15 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 lay | nsubj |
| 16 | running | run | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 stream | acl |
| 17 | through | through | ADP | _ | 19 grass | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 grass | det |
| 19 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 running | obl |
| 20 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 dried | conj |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 23 feet | case |
| 22 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 feet | nmod:poss |
| 23 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 lay | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 dried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dry up | participle · passive | the river | to the Geni's astonishment; immediately property | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result | ||||
| 2 | run | gerund | a shallow stream not said here | the grass | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through grass=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | lay | present | a shallow stream | their feet | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent at foot=Destination | ||||
| 4 | astonish | the Geni | nom astonishment «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
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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