The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 8, sentence 99
On and on they flew, stopping neither for rest nor food, and at length they reached the Japan Sea.
Who acts: wings · What happens: fly, stop, reach · To what, where: Japan Sea, length
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 (wings), 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 | On | on | SCONJ | _ | 5 flew | mark |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 on | cc |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 1 On | conj |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 flew | nsubj |
| 5 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 stopping | punct |
| 7 | stopping | stop | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 flew | advcl |
| 8 | neither | neither | ADV | _ | 7 stopping | advmod |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 rest | case |
| 10 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stopping | obl |
| 11 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 12 food | cc |
| 12 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 rest | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 reached | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 reached | cc |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 length | case |
| 16 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 reached | obl |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 reached | nsubj |
| 18 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 flew | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Sea | det |
| 20 | Japan | Japan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Sea | compound |
| 21 | Sea | Sea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 reached | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | past | wings = wing | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | stop | gerund | wings = wing not said here | for rest nor food; neither property | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | reach | past | wings = wing | the Japan Sea | length | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent sea=Theme at length=Asset |
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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