The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 13, sentence 10
I had gone in the same direction about a league, a distance that the strongest archers could not reach with their arrows, and was about to abandon my search and return home, when I found myself drawn forward against my will.
Who acts: I, strongest archers, my · What happens: go, not reach, be, abandon, return, find · To what, where: same direction, distance, search, myself · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, strongest archers, my), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 gone | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 gone | aux |
| 3 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 direction | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 direction | det |
| 6 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 direction | amod |
| 7 | direction | direction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gone | obl |
| 8 | about | about | ADP | _ | 10 league | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 league | det |
| 10 | league | league | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 direction | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 distance | punct |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 distance | det |
| 13 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 direction | parataxis |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 reach | mark |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 archers | det |
| 16 | strongest | strong | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 17 archers | amod |
| 17 | archers | archer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 reach | nsubj |
| 18 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 reach | aux |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 reach | advmod |
| 20 | reach | reach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 distance | acl |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 arrows | case |
| 22 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 arrows | nmod:poss |
| 23 | arrows | arrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 reach | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 about | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 about | cc |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 about | cop |
| 27 | about | about | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 gone | conj |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 abandon | mark |
| 29 | abandon | abandon | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 about | xcomp |
| 30 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 search | nmod:poss |
| 31 | search | search | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 abandon | obj |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 return | cc |
| 33 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 abandon | conj |
| 34 | home | home | ADV | _ | 33 return | advmod |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 found | punct |
| 36 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 38 found | advmod |
| 37 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 38 found | nsubj |
| 38 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 gone | parataxis |
| 39 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 38 found | obj |
| 40 | drawn | draw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 38 found | ccomp |
| 41 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 40 drawn | advmod |
| 42 | against | against | ADP | _ | 44 will | case |
| 43 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 44 will | nmod:poss |
| 44 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 40 drawn | advcl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gone | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past · perfect | I | the same direction about a league a distance | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in direction=Location | ||||
| 2 | not reach | could | the strongest archers | a distance not said here | with archers's arrows | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent distance=Theme | |||
| 3 | is | past | I not said here | about property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | abandon | to-infinitive | I not said here | my search | vn leave-51.2 «NP V NP.initial_location»: agent=Theme search=Source | ||||
| 5 | return | infinitive | I not said here | home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | find | past | I | myself | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent myself=Attribute clause=Theme | ||||
| 7 | draw | participle | forward property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 8 | search | my | nom search «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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