The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 12, sentence 24
As soon as the sultan arrived, Prince Houssain, as the eldest, took his bow and arrow, and shot first.
Who acts: sultan, eldest · What happens: arrive, take, shoot · To what, where: Houssain, bow
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 (sultan, eldest), 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 | As | as | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 arrived | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 arrived | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 sultan | det |
| 5 | sultan | sultan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 arrived | nsubj |
| 6 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 arrived | punct |
| 8 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Houssain | nmod:desc |
| 9 | Houssain | Houssain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 arrived | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 took | punct |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 took | mark |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 eldest | det |
| 13 | eldest | eld | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 15 took | nsubj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 eldest | punct |
| 15 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 arrived | conj |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 bow | nmod:poss |
| 17 | bow | bow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 took | obj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 arrow | cc |
| 19 | arrow | arrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 bow | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 shot | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 shot | cc |
| 22 | shot | shoot | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 took | conj |
| 23 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 22 shot | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 arrived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrive | past | the sultan | Houssain Prince | soon property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | take | past | the eldest | sultan's bow and arrow | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bow=Theme | ||||
| 3 | shoot | past | the eldest not said here | first property | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: 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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