The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 12, sentence 32
With this intent he went to the place where the Princes Houssain’s and Ali’s were picked up, and proceeding straightforward thence, looked carefully on both sides as he advanced.
Who acts: Prince · What happens: go, pick up, proceed, look, advance · To what, where: place, Princes Houssain
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 (Prince), 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 3 intent | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 intent | det |
| 3 | intent | intent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 went | nsubj |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 place | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 place | det |
| 8 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | obl |
| 9 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 18 picked | advmod |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Houssain | det |
| 11 | Princes | Prince | PROPN | Number=Plur | 12 Houssain | compound |
| 12 | Houssain | Houssain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 picked | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 12 Houssain | case |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 Ali | cc |
| 15 | Ali | Ali | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Houssain | conj |
| 16 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 12 Houssain | case |
| 17 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 picked | aux:pass |
| 18 | picked | pick | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 place | acl:relcl |
| 19 | up | up | ADP | _ | 18 picked | compound:prt |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 looked | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 looked | cc |
| 22 | proceeding | proceed | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 26 looked | advcl |
| 23 | straightforward | straightforward | ADV | _ | 24 thence | advmod |
| 24 | thence | thence | ADV | _ | 22 proceeding | advmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 proceeding | punct |
| 26 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 went | conj |
| 27 | carefully | carefully | ADV | _ | 26 looked | advmod |
| 28 | on | on | ADP | _ | 30 sides | case |
| 29 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 30 sides | det |
| 30 | sides | side | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 looked | obl |
| 31 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 33 advanced | mark |
| 32 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 advanced | nsubj |
| 33 | advanced | advance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 looked | advcl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Prince | the place | with this intent | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to place=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | pick up | past · passive | the Princes Houssain and Ali | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | |||||
| 3 | proceed | gerund | thence property | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | look | past | Prince not said here | on both sides; carefully property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on side=Theme | ||||
| 5 | advance | past | Prince | vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=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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