The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Chapter titles have been normalized throughout., sentence 36
Page 345, ‘snow peaks’ changed to ‘snow-peaks,’ “sitting on the snow-peaks”
What happens: change, sit · To what, where: Page, snow peaks · Speech: someone speaks here
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 | 8 changed | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | 345 | 345 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 Page | flat |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Page | punct |
| 4 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 peaks | punct |
| 5 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 peaks | compound |
| 6 | peaks | peak | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 changed | nsubj |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 peaks | punct |
| 8 | changed | change | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 peaks | case |
| 10 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 peaks | punct |
| 11 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 peaks | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 snow | punct |
| 13 | peaks | peak | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 changed | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 sitting | punct |
| 15 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 sitting | punct |
| 16 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 sitting | punct |
| 17 | sitting | sit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 changed | parataxis |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 peaks | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 peaks | det |
| 20 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 peaks | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 snow | punct |
| 22 | peaks | peak | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 sitting | obl |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 sitting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | change | participle · passive | Page | to snow peaks | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | sit in a quote | gerund | the snow peaks | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on peak=Location |
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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