The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 11, sentence 8
Early next morning they all went out at the same gate of the city, each dressed like a merchant, attended by a trusty officer habited as a slave, and all well mounted and equipped.
Who acts: princes, each · What happens: go out, dress, attend, habit, mount, equip · To what, where: same gate, city, merchant, trusty officer, all
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 | Early | early | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 went | advmod |
| 2 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 morning | amod |
| 3 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 went | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 went | nsubj |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 went | advmod |
| 6 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 6 went | compound:prt |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 gate | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 gate | det |
| 10 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 gate | amod |
| 11 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 went | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 city | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 city | det |
| 14 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 gate | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 dressed | punct |
| 16 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 dressed | nsubj |
| 17 | dressed | dress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 city | acl |
| 18 | like | like | ADP | _ | 20 merchant | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 merchant | det |
| 20 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 dressed | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 attended | punct |
| 22 | attended | attend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 merchant | acl |
| 23 | by | by | ADP | _ | 26 officer | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 officer | det |
| 25 | trusty | trusty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 officer | amod |
| 26 | officer | officer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 attended | obl |
| 27 | habited | habit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 officer | acl |
| 28 | as | as | ADP | _ | 30 slave | case |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 slave | det |
| 30 | slave | slave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 habited | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 mounted | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 mounted | cc |
| 33 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 35 mounted | nsubj:pass |
| 34 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 35 mounted | advmod |
| 35 | mounted | mount | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 went | parataxis |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 equipped | cc |
| 37 | equipped | equip | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 35 mounted | conj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go out | past | princes = prince | the same gate of the city | morning | early property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||
| 2 | dress | participle | each | the city not said here | like a merchant | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent city=Patient | |||
| 3 | attend | participle | a merchant not said here | by a trusty officer | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent by officer=Theme | ||||
| 4 | habit | participle | a trusty officer not said here | as a slave | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | mount | participle · passive | all | well property | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 6 | equip | participle | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: 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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