The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 5, sentence 81
Then suddenly a dark cloud seemed to leave the moon, and soon the sky was entirely obscured.
Who acts: dark cloud · What happens: seem, leave, obscure · To what, where: moon, sky
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dark cloud), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 seemed | advmod |
| 2 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 6 seemed | advmod |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 cloud | det |
| 4 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 cloud | amod |
| 5 | cloud | cloud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 seemed | nsubj |
| 6 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 leave | mark |
| 8 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 seemed | xcomp |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 moon | det |
| 10 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 leave | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 obscured | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 obscured | cc |
| 13 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 18 obscured | advmod |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 sky | det |
| 15 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 obscured | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 obscured | aux:pass |
| 17 | entirely | entirely | ADV | _ | 18 obscured | advmod |
| 18 | obscured | obscure | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 seemed | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 seemed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | past | a dark cloud | then | suddenly property | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||
| 2 | leave | to-infinitive | a dark cloud not said here | the moon | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent moon=Theme | ||||
| 3 | obscure | past · passive | the sky | entirely, soon property | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |
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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