The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 7, sentence 76
“On the banks of the River Ganges is a cliff called Vulture-Crag, upon which was a large fig-tree.
What happens: be, call · To what, where: cliff, banks, large fig tree · Speech: someone speaks here
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: 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 | _ | 11 cliff | punct |
| 2 | On | on | ADP | _ | 4 banks | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 banks | det |
| 4 | banks | bank | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 cliff | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Ganges | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Ganges | det |
| 7 | River | River | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Ganges | compound |
| 8 | Ganges | Ganges | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 banks | nmod |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 cliff | cop |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 cliff | det |
| 11 | cliff | cliff | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 12 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 cliff | acl |
| 13 | Vulture | Vulture | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 called | xcomp |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 Crag | punct |
| 15 | Crag | Crag | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Vulture | flat |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 tree | punct |
| 17 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 18 which | case |
| 18 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 tree | obl |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 tree | cop |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 tree | det |
| 21 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 tree | amod |
| 22 | fig | fig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 tree | compound |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 fig | punct |
| 24 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 cliff | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 cliff | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | a cliff and a large fig tree | the banks of the River Ganges | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | call in a quote | participle | a cliff and a large fig tree not said here | Vulture xcomp | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | past | a large fig tree | upon a cliff and a large fig tree | 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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