The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 14, sentence 68
Be not alarmed, but throw each of them a quarter of the sheep, and then clap spurs to your horse and ride to the fountain.
What happens: not alarm, throw, clap · To what, where: each, spurs, horse
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 3 alarmed | aux:pass |
| 2 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 alarmed | advmod |
| 3 | alarmed | alarm | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 throw | punct |
| 5 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 throw | cc |
| 6 | throw | throw | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 alarmed | parataxis |
| 7 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 throw | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 them | case |
| 9 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 each | nmod |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 quarter | det |
| 11 | quarter | quarter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 throw | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 sheep | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 sheep | det |
| 14 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 quarter | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 clap | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 clap | cc |
| 17 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 clap | advmod |
| 18 | clap | clap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 throw | conj |
| 19 | spurs | spur | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 clap | obj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 horse | case |
| 21 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 horse | nmod:poss |
| 22 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 clap | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 ride | cc |
| 24 | ride | ride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 horse | conj |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 fountain | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 fountain | det |
| 27 | fountain | fountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 ride | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 alarmed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not alarm | infinitive · passive | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» | ||||||
| 2 | throw | infinitive | each of gates | a quarter of the sheep obj | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent each=Destination quarter=Theme | ||||
| 3 | clap | present | spurs | your horse and ride to the fountain | then | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent spur=Theme to horse=Recipient |
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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