The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 4, sentence 97
While working at his task one day in a small grove of the slender trees that he had discovered, he was surprised by a soft, bright light which suddenly flooded the spot in which he was, and he was astonished to see that all this brilliance came from one bamboo.
Who acts: soft bright light, Heaven, brilliance · What happens: work, discover, surprise, flood, be, see · To what, where: slender trees, Heaven, spot, one bamboo
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 (soft bright light, Heaven, brilliance), 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 | While | while | SCONJ | _ | 2 working | mark |
| 2 | working | work | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 surprised | advcl |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 task | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 task | nmod:poss |
| 5 | task | task | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 working | obl |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 day | nummod |
| 7 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 working | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 grove | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 grove | det |
| 10 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 grove | amod |
| 11 | grove | grove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 working | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 trees | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 trees | det |
| 14 | slender | slender | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 trees | amod |
| 15 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 grove | nmod |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 discovered | mark |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 discovered | nsubj |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 discovered | aux |
| 19 | discovered | discover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 trees | acl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 working | punct |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 surprised | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 surprised | aux:pass |
| 23 | surprised | surprise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 24 | by | by | ADP | _ | 29 light | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 light | det |
| 26 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 light | amod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 soft | punct |
| 28 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 light | amod |
| 29 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 surprised | obl |
| 30 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 flooded | nsubj |
| 31 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 32 flooded | advmod |
| 32 | flooded | flood | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 light | acl:relcl |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 spot | det |
| 34 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 flooded | obj |
| 35 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 which | case |
| 36 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 38 was | obl |
| 37 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 was | nsubj |
| 38 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 spot | acl:relcl |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 astonished | punct |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 astonished | cc |
| 41 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 astonished | nsubj |
| 42 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 43 astonished | cop |
| 43 | astonished | astonished | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 surprised | conj |
| 44 | to | to | PART | _ | 45 see | mark |
| 45 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 43 astonished | xcomp |
| 46 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 50 came | mark |
| 47 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 49 brilliance | det:predet |
| 48 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 49 brilliance | det |
| 49 | brilliance | brilliance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 came | nsubj |
| 50 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 45 see | advcl |
| 51 | from | from | ADP | _ | 53 bamboo | case |
| 52 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 53 bamboo | nummod |
| 53 | bamboo | bamboo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 came | obl |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 surprised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | work | gerund | a soft bright light not said here | day | in a small grove of the slender trees; at Heaven's task | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at task=Theme | |||
| 2 | discover | past · perfect | Heaven | the slender trees not said here | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Topic | ||||
| 3 | surprise | past · passive | a soft bright light | Heaven | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | flood | past | a soft bright light | the spot | suddenly property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent spot=Patient | |||
| 5 | is | past | Heaven | astonished property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | see | to-infinitive | Heaven not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 7 | come | past | all brilliance | one bamboo | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from bamboo=Initial_Location | ||||
| 8 | task | Heaven | nom task «act transitive»: 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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