The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 11, sentence 10
The next morning by break of day, after they had embraced and wished each other good success, they mounted their horses and each took a different road.
Who acts: princes, each · What happens: embrace, wish, mount, take, break · To what, where: next morning, other good success, horses, different road, day
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princes, each), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 morning | det |
| 2 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 morning | amod |
| 3 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 embraced | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 5 break | case |
| 5 | break | break | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 morning | nmod |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 day | case |
| 7 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 break | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 embraced | punct |
| 9 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 12 embraced | mark |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 embraced | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 embraced | aux |
| 12 | embraced | embrace | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 wished | cc |
| 14 | wished | wish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 embraced | conj |
| 15 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 success | det |
| 16 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 success | amod |
| 17 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 success | amod |
| 18 | success | success | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 wished | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 mounted | punct |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 mounted | nsubj |
| 21 | mounted | mount | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 embraced | parataxis |
| 22 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 horses | nmod:poss |
| 23 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 mounted | obj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 took | cc |
| 25 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 26 took | nsubj |
| 26 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 mounted | conj |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 road | det |
| 28 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 road | amod |
| 29 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 took | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 embraced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | embrace | past · perfect · passive | the next morning by break of day | princes = prince nsubj | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-Agent | ||||
| 2 | wish | participle | each other good success | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot success=Theme | |||||
| 3 | mount | past | princes = prince | princes's horses | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient | ||||
| 4 | take | past | each | a different road | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent road=Theme | ||||
| 5 | break | day | nom break «event transitive»: of=patient |
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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