The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 4, sentence 44
“Far, far away, thousands of miles from here, is a desolate country covered with heavy jungles, in the midst of which grows a circle of palm trees, in the center of which stand six jugs full of water, piled one above the other, and below the sixth is a cage which contains a little green parrot.
Who acts: midst, center, six jugs, cage · What happens: be, cover, grow, stand, pile, contain · To what, where: country, circle, six jugs, one, other, cage
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 (midst, center, six jugs, cage), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 desolate | punct |
| 2 | Far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 away | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Far | punct |
| 4 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 away | advmod |
| 5 | away | away | ADV | _ | 15 desolate | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 away | punct |
| 7 | thousands | thousand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 away | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 miles | case |
| 9 | miles | mile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 thousands | nmod |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 here | case |
| 11 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 miles | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 away | punct |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 desolate | cop |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 desolate | det |
| 15 | desolate | desolate | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 desolate | obj |
| 17 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 country | acl |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 jungles | case |
| 19 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 jungles | amod |
| 20 | jungles | jungle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 covered | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 midst | punct |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 midst | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 midst | det |
| 24 | midst | midst | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 desolate | parataxis |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 which | case |
| 26 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 grows | nsubj |
| 27 | grows | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 midst | acl:relcl |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 circle | det |
| 29 | circle | circle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 grows | obj |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 trees | case |
| 31 | palm | palm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 trees | compound |
| 32 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 circle | nmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 center | punct |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 center | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 center | det |
| 36 | center | center | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 grows | parataxis |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 which | case |
| 38 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 39 stand | nsubj |
| 39 | stand | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 center | acl:relcl |
| 40 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 41 jugs | nummod |
| 41 | jugs | jug | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 stand | obj |
| 42 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 jugs | amod |
| 43 | of | of | ADP | _ | 44 water | case |
| 44 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 full | obl |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 piled | punct |
| 46 | piled | pile | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 jugs | acl:relcl |
| 47 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 46 piled | obj |
| 48 | above | above | ADP | _ | 50 other | case |
| 49 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 50 other | det |
| 50 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 one | nmod |
| 51 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 58 cage | punct |
| 52 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 58 cage | cc |
| 53 | below | below | ADP | _ | 55 sixth | case |
| 54 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 55 sixth | det |
| 55 | sixth | sixth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 58 cage | obl |
| 56 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 58 cage | cop |
| 57 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 58 cage | det |
| 58 | cage | cage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 stand | obl |
| 59 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 60 contains | nsubj |
| 60 | contains | contain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 58 cage | acl:relcl |
| 61 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 64 parrot | det |
| 62 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 64 parrot | amod |
| 63 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 64 parrot | amod |
| 64 | parrot | parrot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 60 contains | obj |
| 65 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 desolate | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | here | country obj; the midst parataxis; away, desolate property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | cover in a quote | participle | country not said here | with heavy jungles | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with jungle=Theme | ||||
| 3 | grow in a quote | present | the midst | a circle of palm trees | the center parataxis | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location circle=Theme | |||
| 4 | stand in a quote | present | the center | six jugs | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer jug=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | pile in a quote | past | six jugs not said here | one | the other | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent one=Theme above other=Destination | |||
| 6 | is a in a quote | present | a cage | the sixth | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | contain in a quote | present | a cage | a little green parrot | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot parrot=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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