The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 10, sentence 110
They marched in force to the palace and took the old magician and his son prisoners.
Who acts: people · What happens: march, take · To what, where: force, old magician
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 marched | nsubj |
| 2 | marched | march | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 force | case |
| 4 | force | force | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 marched | obl |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 palace | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 palace | det |
| 7 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 marched | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 took | cc |
| 9 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 marched | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 magician | det |
| 11 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 magician | amod |
| 12 | magician | magician | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 took | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 prisoners | cc |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 prisoners | nmod:poss |
| 15 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 prisoners | compound |
| 16 | prisoners | prisoner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 magician | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 marched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | march | past | people | force | to the palace result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to palace=Result | |||
| 2 | take | past | people not said here | the old magician and magician's son prisoners | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent magician=Theme |
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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