The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 11, sentence 9
They proceeded the first day’s journey together; and at night when they were at supper, they agreed to travel for a twelvemonth, and that day a year later to meet again at the khan where they were stopping; so that as they had all three taken leave together of the sultan, they might return in company.
Who acts: princes, three, first day · What happens: proceed, be, agree, travel, meet, stop · To what, where: journey, supper, khan, company
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, three, first day), 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 proceeded | nsubj |
| 2 | proceeded | proceed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 day | det |
| 4 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 day | amod |
| 5 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 journey | nmod:poss |
| 6 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 5 day | case |
| 7 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 proceeded | obj |
| 8 | together | together | ADV | _ | 2 proceeded | advmod |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 agreed | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 agreed | cc |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 night | case |
| 12 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 agreed | obl |
| 13 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 supper | advmod |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 supper | nsubj |
| 15 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 supper | cop |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 supper | case |
| 17 | supper | supper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 night | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 night | punct |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 agreed | nsubj |
| 20 | agreed | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 proceeded | conj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 travel | mark |
| 22 | travel | travel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 agreed | xcomp |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 twelvemonth | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 twelvemonth | det |
| 25 | twelvemonth | twelvemonth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 travel | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 meet | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 meet | cc |
| 28 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 29 day | det |
| 29 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 meet | obl:unmarked |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 year | det |
| 31 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 later | obl:unmarked |
| 32 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 34 meet | advmod |
| 33 | to | to | PART | _ | 34 meet | mark |
| 34 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 proceeded | advcl |
| 35 | again | again | ADV | _ | 34 meet | advmod |
| 36 | at | at | ADP | _ | 38 khan | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 khan | det |
| 38 | khan | khan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 meet | obl |
| 39 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 42 stopping | advmod |
| 40 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 stopping | nsubj |
| 41 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 stopping | aux |
| 42 | stopping | stop | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 38 khan | acl:relcl |
| 43 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 48 had | punct |
| 44 | so | so | ADV | _ | 48 had | advmod |
| 45 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 48 had | mark |
| 46 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 48 had | mark |
| 47 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 48 had | nsubj |
| 48 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 proceeded | conj |
| 49 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 50 three | det |
| 50 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 52 leave | nsubj |
| 51 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 52 leave | advcl |
| 52 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 48 had | xcomp |
| 53 | together | together | ADV | _ | 52 leave | advmod |
| 54 | of | of | ADP | _ | 56 sultan | case |
| 55 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 56 sultan | det |
| 56 | sultan | sultan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 leave | obl |
| 57 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 60 return | punct |
| 58 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 60 return | nsubj |
| 59 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 60 return | aux |
| 60 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 52 leave | parataxis |
| 61 | in | in | ADP | _ | 62 company | case |
| 62 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 60 return | obl |
| 63 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 proceeded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | proceed | past | princes = prince | the first day's journey | together property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is | past | princes = prince | supper | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | agree speech: agree | past | princes = prince | night | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | travel not said to happen | to-infinitive | princes = prince not said here | for a twelvemonth | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | meet | to-infinitive | princes = prince not said here | the khan | again; day | late property | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||
| 6 | stop | past · progressive | princes = prince | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 7 | have | past | princes = prince | tree rules | |||||
| 8 | take | participle | all three not said here | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 9 | leave | infinitive | all three | of the sultan; together property | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme of sultan=Initial_Location | ||||
| 10 | return | might | princes = prince | company | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 11 | journey | the first day | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=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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