The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 8, sentence 119
It was the dry season and the water was low in the pond, in which were a good many fish.
Who acts: lake, water · What happens: be · To what, where: dry season, pond, good many fish
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lake, water), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 season | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 season | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 season | det |
| 4 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 season | amod |
| 5 | season | season | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 low | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 water | det |
| 8 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 low | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 low | cop |
| 10 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 season | conj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 pond | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 pond | det |
| 13 | pond | pond | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 low | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 fish | punct |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 which | case |
| 16 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 21 fish | det |
| 17 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 fish | cop |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 fish | det |
| 19 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 fish | amod |
| 20 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 fish | amod |
| 21 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 season | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 season | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | lake | the dry season and which good many fish | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the water | the pond | low property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | is a | past | lake not said here | which good many fish | 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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