The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 7, sentence 58
[Footnote 1: The Champak is a bushy tree bearing a profusion of blossoms which resemble stars.
Who acts: Champak, bushy tree, blossoms · What happens: be, bear, resemble · To what, where: bushy tree, profusion, stars, Footnote
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Champak, bushy tree, blossoms), 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 | _ | 2 Footnote | punct |
| 2 | Footnote | footnote | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 Footnote | flat |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 tree | punct |
| 5 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Champak | det |
| 6 | Champak | Champak | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 tree | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 tree | cop |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 tree | det |
| 9 | bushy | bushy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 tree | amod |
| 10 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Footnote | conj |
| 11 | bearing | bear | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 tree | acl |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 profusion | det |
| 13 | profusion | profusion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 bearing | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 blossoms | case |
| 15 | blossoms | blossom | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 profusion | nmod |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 resemble | nsubj |
| 17 | resemble | resemble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 blossoms | acl:relcl |
| 18 | stars | star | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 resemble | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Footnote | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the Champak | a bushy tree | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | bear | gerund | a bushy tree not said here | a profusion of blossoms | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent profusion=Patient | ||||
| 3 | resemble | present | blossoms | stars | 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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