The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Chapter titles have been normalized throughout., sentence 29
Page 262, ‘imense’ changed to ‘immense,’ “Seizing an immense iron rod”
Who acts: Page · What happens: change, ‘, seize · To what, where: imense, immense iron rod, 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: who acts (Page), 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 | 262 | 262 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 Page | flat |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 imense | punct |
| 4 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 imense | punct |
| 5 | imense | imense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Page | conj |
| 6 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 imense | punct |
| 7 | changed | change | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 imense | acl |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 ‘ | case |
| 9 | ‘ | ‘ | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 changed | xcomp |
| 10 | immense | immense | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 ‘ | xcomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Page | punct |
| 12 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 1 Page | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 Seizing | punct |
| 14 | Seizing | seize | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 1 Page | acl |
| 15 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 rod | det |
| 16 | immense | immense | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 rod | amod |
| 17 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 rod | compound |
| 18 | rod | rod | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 Seizing | obj |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 Seizing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | change | participle | imense not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | ‘ | infinitive | immense property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | seize in a quote | gerund | Page and imense not said here | a immense iron rod | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rod=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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