The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 26, sentence 72
The weather was fine and they sailed on until they reached an island which looked very beautiful to them.
Who acts: weather, summons, island · What happens: be, sail on, reach, look · To what, where: island
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 (weather, summons, island), 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 weather | det |
| 2 | weather | weather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fine | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 fine | cop |
| 4 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 sailed | cc |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 sailed | nsubj |
| 7 | sailed | sail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 fine | conj |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 sailed | compound:prt |
| 9 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 11 reached | mark |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 reached | nsubj |
| 11 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 sailed | advcl |
| 12 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 island | det |
| 13 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 reached | obj |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 looked | nsubj |
| 15 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 island | acl:relcl |
| 16 | very | very | ADV | _ | 17 beautiful | advmod |
| 17 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 looked | xcomp |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 them | case |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 beautiful | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 fine | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the weather | fine property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | sail on | past | summons = summon | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | reach | past | summons = summon | a island | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent island=Theme | ||||
| 4 | look | past | a island | beautiful property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
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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