The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 26, sentence 5
The Lake of Gems lay on the other side of Mount Sumi, and was a beautiful sheet of water, flashing all the colors of the rainbow.
Who acts: Lake · What happens: lay, be, flash · To what, where: other side, beautiful sheet, colors
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 (Lake), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Lake | det |
| 2 | Lake | Lake | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 lay | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Gems | case |
| 4 | Gems | Gem | PROPN | Number=Plur | 2 Lake | nmod |
| 5 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 side | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 side | det |
| 8 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 side | amod |
| 9 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lay | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Mount | case |
| 11 | Mount | Mount | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 side | nmod |
| 12 | Sumi | Sumi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Mount | flat |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 sheet | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 sheet | cc |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 sheet | cop |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 sheet | det |
| 17 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 sheet | amod |
| 18 | sheet | sheet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lay | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 water | case |
| 20 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 sheet | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 flashing | punct |
| 22 | flashing | flash | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 lay | advcl |
| 23 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 25 colors | det:predet |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 colors | det |
| 25 | colors | color | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 flashing | obj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 rainbow | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 rainbow | det |
| 28 | rainbow | rainbow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 colors | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lay | present | the Lake of Gems | the other side of Mount | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on side=Destination | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | a beautiful sheet | of water | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | flash | gerund | the Lake of Gems not said here | all colors of the rainbow | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent color=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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