The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 4, sentence 17
All the rocks and trees you see here were once living people, and the enchanter turned them into what they now are.
Who acts: you, rocks, enchanter · What happens: see, live, turn, be · To what, where: rocks, people
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, rocks, enchanter), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 rocks | det:predet |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 rocks | det |
| 3 | rocks | rock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 living | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 trees | cc |
| 5 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 rocks | conj |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 see | nsubj |
| 7 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 rocks | acl:relcl |
| 8 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 see | advmod |
| 9 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 living | aux |
| 10 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 11 living | advmod |
| 11 | living | live | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 12 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 living | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 turned | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 turned | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 enchanter | det |
| 16 | enchanter | enchanter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 turned | nsubj |
| 17 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 living | parataxis |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 turned | obj |
| 19 | into | into | ADP | _ | 20 what | case |
| 20 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 turned | obl |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 are | nsubj |
| 22 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 23 are | advmod |
| 23 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 what | cop |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 living | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | present | you | all rocks and trees not said here | here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rock=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | live | past · progressive | all rocks and trees | people | once property | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme people=Location | |||
| 3 | turn | past | the enchanter | people | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is | present | 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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