The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 13, sentence 54
They mounted their horses again, and followed the prince, who turned back to the iron gate, which was opened by one of his followers.
Who acts: companions, prince · What happens: mount, follow, turn back, open · To what, where: horses, prince, iron gate
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 (companions, 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 mounted | nsubj |
| 2 | mounted | mount | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 horses | nmod:poss |
| 4 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 mounted | obj |
| 5 | again | again | ADV | _ | 2 mounted | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 followed | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 followed | cc |
| 8 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 mounted | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 prince | det |
| 10 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 followed | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 turned | punct |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 turned | nsubj |
| 13 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 prince | acl:relcl |
| 14 | back | back | ADV | _ | 13 turned | advmod |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 gate | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 gate | det |
| 17 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 gate | compound |
| 18 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 turned | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 opened | punct |
| 20 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 opened | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 opened | aux:pass |
| 22 | opened | open | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 gate | acl:relcl |
| 23 | by | by | ADP | _ | 24 one | case |
| 24 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 opened | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 followers | case |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 followers | nmod:poss |
| 27 | followers | follower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 one | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 mounted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mount | past | companions = companion | companions's horses | again | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient | |||
| 2 | follow | past | companions = companion not said here | the prince | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prince=Theme | ||||
| 3 | turn back | past | the prince | the iron gate | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to gate=Destination | ||||
| 4 | open | past · passive | the iron gate | by one of Prince's followers | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: subject=Theme by one=Location |
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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