The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 13, sentence 30
They represented the danger to be greater, as the prince could not reside far from the capital, for on every visit his attendants were different, their habits new, and their arms clean and bright, as if just come from the maker’s hands; and their horses looked as if they had only been walked out.
Who acts: counsellors, prince, attendants, horses · What happens: represent, be, not reside, come, look, walk out · To what, where: danger, visit, hands, counsellors
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 (counsellors, prince, attendants, 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 represented | nsubj |
| 2 | represented | represent | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 danger | det |
| 4 | danger | danger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 represented | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 greater | mark |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 greater | cop |
| 7 | greater | great | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 2 represented | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 reside | punct |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 reside | mark |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 prince | det |
| 11 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 reside | nsubj |
| 12 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 reside | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 reside | advmod |
| 14 | reside | reside | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 represented | parataxis |
| 15 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 reside | advmod |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 capital | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 capital | det |
| 18 | capital | capital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 far | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 visit | punct |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 visit | case |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 visit | case |
| 22 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 visit | det |
| 23 | visit | visit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 reside | obl |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 attendants | nmod:poss |
| 25 | attendants | attendant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 different | nsubj |
| 26 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 different | cop |
| 27 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 visit | acl:relcl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 new | punct |
| 29 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 habits | nmod:poss |
| 30 | habits | habit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 new | nsubj |
| 31 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 reside | advcl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 clean | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 clean | cc |
| 34 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 arms | nmod:poss |
| 35 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 clean | nsubj |
| 36 | clean | clean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 represented | parataxis |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 bright | cc |
| 38 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 clean | conj |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 come | punct |
| 40 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 43 come | mark |
| 41 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 43 come | mark |
| 42 | just | just | ADV | _ | 43 come | advmod |
| 43 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 clean | conj |
| 44 | from | from | ADP | _ | 48 hands | case |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 maker | det |
| 46 | maker | maker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 hands | nmod:poss |
| 47 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 46 maker | case |
| 48 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 43 come | obl |
| 49 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 53 looked | punct |
| 50 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 53 looked | cc |
| 51 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 52 horses | nmod:poss |
| 52 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 53 looked | nsubj |
| 53 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 represented | parataxis |
| 54 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 60 walked | mark |
| 55 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 60 walked | mark |
| 56 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 60 walked | nsubj |
| 57 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 60 walked | aux |
| 58 | only | only | ADV | _ | 60 walked | advmod |
| 59 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 60 walked | aux:pass |
| 60 | walked | walk | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 53 looked | ccomp |
| 61 | out | out | ADP | _ | 60 walked | compound:prt |
| 62 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 represented | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | represent | past | counsellors = counsellor | the danger | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot danger=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | to-infinitive | counsellors = counsellor not said here | great property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not reside | could | the prince | for every visit; far property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is | past | Prince's attendants | every visit not said here | different property | tree rules | |||
| 5 | come a condition, not said to happen | present | counsellors = counsellor not said here | the maker's hands | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from hand=Initial_Location | ||||
| 6 | look | past | counsellors's horses | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | walk out a condition, not said to happen | past · perfect · passive | counsellors = counsellor | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Attribute |
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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