The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 10, sentence 82
She owned that they could not have arrived at a better time, as most probably the magicians would meet that very night.
Who acts: stork, Chasid, most magicians · What happens: own, not arrive, meet
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 (stork, Chasid, most magicians), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 owned | nsubj |
| 2 | owned | own | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 arrived | mark |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 arrived | nsubj |
| 5 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 arrived | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 arrived | advmod |
| 7 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 arrived | aux |
| 8 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 owned | ccomp |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 time | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 time | det |
| 11 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 12 time | amod |
| 12 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 arrived | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 meet | punct |
| 14 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 20 meet | mark |
| 15 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 18 magicians | amod |
| 16 | probably | probably | ADV | _ | 18 magicians | advmod |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 magicians | det |
| 18 | magicians | magician | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 meet | nsubj |
| 19 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 meet | aux |
| 20 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 arrived | conj |
| 21 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 night | det |
| 22 | very | very | ADV | _ | 23 night | advmod |
| 23 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 meet | obl:unmarked |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 owned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | own | past | stork | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | not arrive | could · perfect | Chasid | time | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | meet | would | the most magicians | night | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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