The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 26, sentence 4
It was a long and wearisome climb, but at last they got up there, and found eight of the Genii sitting on eight snow-peaks, and looking down on the Lake of Gems, as Yun-Ying had said.
Who acts: way, things, eight · What happens: be, climb, get up, find, sit, look down · To what, where: eight, eight snow peaks, Yun · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (way, things, eight), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 long | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 long | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 long | det |
| 4 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 wearisome | cc |
| 6 | wearisome | wearisome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 long | conj |
| 7 | climb | climb | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 long | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 last | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 last | cc |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 last | case |
| 11 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 long | conj |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 got | nsubj |
| 13 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 last | acl:relcl |
| 14 | up | up | ADV | _ | 13 got | advmod |
| 15 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 got | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 found | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 found | cc |
| 18 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 long | parataxis |
| 19 | eight | eight | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 found | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 Genii | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Genii | det |
| 22 | Genii | Genii | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 eight | nmod |
| 23 | sitting | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 found | xcomp |
| 24 | on | on | ADP | _ | 28 peaks | case |
| 25 | eight | eight | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 28 peaks | nummod |
| 26 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 peaks | compound |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 snow | punct |
| 28 | peaks | peak | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 sitting | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 looking | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 looking | cc |
| 31 | looking | look | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 23 sitting | conj |
| 32 | down | down | ADV | _ | 31 looking | advmod |
| 33 | on | on | ADP | _ | 35 Lake | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 Lake | det |
| 35 | Lake | Lake | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 looking | obl |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 Gems | case |
| 37 | Gems | Gem | PROPN | Number=Plur | 35 Lake | nmod |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 said | punct |
| 39 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 44 said | mark |
| 40 | Yun | Yun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 44 said | nsubj:pass |
| 41 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 40 Yun | punct |
| 42 | Ying | Ying | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 Yun | flat |
| 43 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 44 said | aux |
| 44 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 looking | conj |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 long | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | way | long property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | way not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | climb | present | way not said here | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | be | way not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | get up | past | things = thing | there | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 6 | find | past | eight of the Genii | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent eight=Attribute clause=Theme | |||||
| 7 | sit | gerund | eight of the Genii not said here | eight snow peaks | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on peak=Location | ||||
| 8 | look down | gerund | eight of the Genii not said here | on the Lake of Gems; down property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on lake=Theme | ||||
| 9 | say speech: assert | past · perfect · passive | Yun | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic |
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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