The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 12, sentence 23
When they were dismissed from his presence, they each provided themselves with a bow and arrow, and went to the plain appointed, followed by a great concourse of people.
Who acts: horses · What happens: dismiss, provide, go, appoint, follow · To what, where: horses, presence, plain
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (horses), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 dismissed | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 dismissed | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 dismissed | aux:pass |
| 4 | dismissed | dismiss | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 presence | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 presence | nmod:poss |
| 7 | presence | presence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dismissed | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 provided | punct |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 provided | nsubj |
| 10 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 provided | nsubj |
| 11 | provided | provide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 dismissed | parataxis |
| 12 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 11 provided | obj |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 bow | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 bow | det |
| 15 | bow | bow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 provided | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 arrow | cc |
| 17 | arrow | arrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 bow | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 went | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 went | cc |
| 20 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 provided | conj |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 plain | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 plain | det |
| 23 | plain | plain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 went | obl |
| 24 | appointed | appoint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 plain | acl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 followed | punct |
| 26 | followed | follow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 appointed | conj |
| 27 | by | by | ADP | _ | 30 concourse | case |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 concourse | det |
| 29 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 concourse | amod |
| 30 | concourse | concourse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 appointed | obl |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 people | case |
| 32 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 concourse | nmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 dismissed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dismiss | past · passive | horses = horse | sultan's presence | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme from presence=Source | ||||
| 2 | provide | past | horses = horse | horses = horse | with a bow and arrow | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-2 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent themselves=Recipient with bow=Theme | |||
| 3 | go | past | horses = horse not said here | the plain | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to plain=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | appoint | participle | the plain not said here | by a great concourse of people | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | follow | participle | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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