The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 27, sentence 30
Now Gangar was the name also of the most mighty giant of all the seven, and the mountain which was named after him was full of enormous caverns, which were the homes of himself and of his comrades.
Who acts: Gangar, mountain, enormous caverns · What happens: be, name · To what, where: name, mountain, homes
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Gangar, mountain, enormous caverns), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 name | advmod |
| 2 | Gangar | Gangar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 name | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 name | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 name | det |
| 5 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | also | also | ADV | _ | 11 giant | advmod |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 giant | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 giant | det |
| 9 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 10 mighty | advmod |
| 10 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 giant | amod |
| 11 | giant | giant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 name | nmod |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 seven | case |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 seven | det:predet |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 seven | det |
| 15 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 giant | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 full | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 full | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 mountain | det |
| 19 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 full | nsubj |
| 20 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 named | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 named | aux:pass |
| 22 | named | name | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 mountain | acl:relcl |
| 23 | after | after | ADP | _ | 24 him | case |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 named | obl |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 full | cop |
| 26 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 name | parataxis |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 caverns | case |
| 28 | enormous | enormous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 caverns | amod |
| 29 | caverns | cavern | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 full | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 homes | punct |
| 31 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 34 homes | nsubj |
| 32 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 homes | cop |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 homes | det |
| 34 | homes | home | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 caverns | conj |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 himself | case |
| 36 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 34 homes | nmod |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 comrades | cc |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 comrades | case |
| 39 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 comrades | nmod:poss |
| 40 | comrades | comrade | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 caverns | conj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 name | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Gangar | the name | now | of the mighty giant of all seven | tree rules | ||
| 2 | name | past · passive | the mountain | after Gangar | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | past | the mountain | of enormous caverns and the homes and Gangar's comrades; full property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is a | past | enormous caverns and the homes and Gangar's comrades | the homes | of Gangar | tree rules |
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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