The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Chapter titles have been normalized throughout., sentence 25
Page 234, ‘darknes’ changed to ‘darkness,’ “a thick darkness, a furious storm”
What happens: change · To what, where: darknes, Page
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Chapter titles have been normalized throughout.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Page | page | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | 234 | 234 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 Page | flat |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 darknes | punct |
| 4 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 darknes | punct |
| 5 | darknes | darkne | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Page | conj |
| 6 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 darknes | punct |
| 7 | changed | change | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 darknes | acl |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 darkness | case |
| 9 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 darkness | punct |
| 10 | darkness | darkness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 changed | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 darkness | punct |
| 12 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 darkness | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 darkness | punct |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 darkness | det |
| 15 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 darkness | amod |
| 16 | darkness | darkness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Page | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 storm | punct |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 storm | det |
| 19 | furious | furious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 storm | amod |
| 20 | storm | storm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Page | parataxis |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 storm | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | change | participle | darknes not said here | to darkness result | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Agent to darkness=Result |
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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