The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 13, sentence 43
The sorceress saw him coming, and watched him and his attendants till she suddenly lost sight of them in the rocks.
Who acts: sorceress, Prince · What happens: see, come, watch, lose, sight · To what, where: Prince, sight, rocks, attendants
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 (sorceress, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 sorceress | det |
| 2 | sorceress | sorceress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 saw | obj |
| 5 | coming | come | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 saw | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 watched | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 watched | cc |
| 8 | watched | watch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 saw | parataxis |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 watched | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 attendants | cc |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 attendants | nmod:poss |
| 12 | attendants | attendant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 him | conj |
| 13 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 16 lost | mark |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 lost | nsubj |
| 15 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 16 lost | advmod |
| 16 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 watched | advcl |
| 17 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 lost | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 them | case |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 sight | nmod |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 rocks | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 rocks | det |
| 22 | rocks | rock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 lost | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the sorceress | Prince | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | come | gerund | Prince not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | watch | past | Prince | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||||
| 4 | lose | past | sorceress | sight of attendants | the rocks | suddenly property | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Eventuality | ||
| 5 | sight | attendants = attendant | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=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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