The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 8, sentence 71
Everything, of course, was strange to him; the streets and buildings were different from what he had been used to, and all the people looked prosperous.
Who acts: Everything, streets, people · What happens: be, use, look · To what, where: Opulo
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 (Everything, streets, people), 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 | Everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 7 strange | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 course | punct |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 course | case |
| 4 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Everything | appos |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Everything | punct |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 strange | cop |
| 7 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 him | case |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 strange | obl |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 different | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 streets | det |
| 12 | streets | street | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 different | nsubj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 buildings | cc |
| 14 | buildings | building | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 streets | conj |
| 15 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 different | cop |
| 16 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 strange | parataxis |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 what | case |
| 18 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 different | obl |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 used | nsubj |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 used | aux |
| 21 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 22 used | aux:pass |
| 22 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 what | acl:relcl |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 used | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 looked | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 looked | cc |
| 26 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 28 people | det:predet |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 people | det |
| 28 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 looked | nsubj |
| 29 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 different | conj |
| 30 | prosperous | prosperous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 looked | xcomp |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 strange | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Everything | Opulo | strange property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is | past | the streets and buildings | what obl; different property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | use | past · perfect · passive | Opulo | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 4 | look | past | all people | prosperous property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
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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