The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 4, sentence 65
Of course, this awoke the genii, who filled the air with their howls and screeches when they found the treasure gone.
Who acts: genii · What happens: awake, fill, find, howl · To what, where: genii, air, treasure gone
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 (genii), 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 | Of | of | ADP | _ | 4 this | case |
| 2 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Of | fixed |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Of | punct |
| 4 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 awoke | obl |
| 5 | awoke | awake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 genii | det |
| 7 | genii | genii | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 awoke | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 filled | punct |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 filled | nsubj |
| 10 | filled | fill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 genii | acl:relcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 air | det |
| 12 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 filled | obj |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 howls | case |
| 14 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 howls | nmod:poss |
| 15 | howls | howl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 filled | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 screeches | cc |
| 17 | screeches | screech | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 howls | conj |
| 18 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 20 found | advmod |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 found | nsubj |
| 20 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 filled | advcl |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 gone | det |
| 22 | treasure | treasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 gone | compound |
| 23 | gone | gone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 found | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 awoke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | awake | past | the genii | of this | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location genii=Theme | ||||
| 2 | fill | past | the genii | the air | with genii's howls and screeches | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent air=Patient with howl=Instrument | |||
| 3 | find | past | genii | the treasure gone | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gone=Topic | ||||
| 4 | howl | genii | nom howl «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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