The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 26, sentence 39
When the Genii saw this they stopped roaring, so glad were they to see the Black River guarding them once more from the outer world.
Who acts: Genii, fishes · What happens: see, stop, roar, guard · To what, where: this, Black River, fishes
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 (Genii, 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 saw | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Genii | det |
| 3 | Genii | Genii | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 saw | nsubj |
| 4 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 saw | obj |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 stopped | nsubj |
| 7 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 saw | conj |
| 8 | roaring | roar | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 stopped | xcomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 glad | punct |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 glad | advmod |
| 11 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 saw | conj |
| 12 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 see | aux |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 see | nsubj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 see | mark |
| 15 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 glad | xcomp |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 River | det |
| 17 | Black | Black | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 River | compound |
| 18 | River | River | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 see | obj |
| 19 | guarding | guard | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 see | advcl |
| 20 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 guarding | obj |
| 21 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 22 more | advmod |
| 22 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 19 guarding | advmod |
| 23 | from | from | ADP | _ | 26 world | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 world | det |
| 25 | outer | outer | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 world | amod |
| 26 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 guarding | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the Genii | this | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | stop | past | fishes = fish | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | roar | gerund | fishes = fish not said here | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | see | past | fishes = fish | the Black River | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer river=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | guard | gerund | fishes = fish not said here | fishes = fish | from the outer world | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary from world=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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