The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 15, sentence 14
Having completed this dreadful execution, Schaibar left the hall of audience, and went into the middle of the court with the bar of iron on his shoulder.
Who acts: Schaibar, dreadful execution · What happens: have, complete, leave, go · To what, where: dreadful execution, hall, middle
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Schaibar, dreadful execution), 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 | Having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 left | advcl |
| 2 | completed | complete | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Having | xcomp |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 execution | det |
| 4 | dreadful | dreadful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 execution | amod |
| 5 | execution | execution | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Having | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Having | punct |
| 7 | Schaibar | Schaibar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 left | nsubj |
| 8 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 hall | det |
| 10 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 left | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 audience | case |
| 12 | audience | audience | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 hall | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 went | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 went | cc |
| 15 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 left | conj |
| 16 | into | into | ADP | _ | 18 middle | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 middle | det |
| 18 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 went | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 court | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 court | det |
| 21 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 middle | nmod |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 bar | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 bar | det |
| 24 | bar | bar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 went | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 iron | case |
| 26 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 bar | nmod |
| 27 | on | on | ADP | _ | 29 shoulder | case |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 shoulder | nmod:poss |
| 29 | shoulder | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 went | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | gerund | Schaibar not said here | this dreadful execution | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | complete | participle | this dreadful execution not said here | vn complete-55.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | leave | past | Schaibar | the hall of audience | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hall=Theme | ||||
| 4 | go | past | Schaibar not said here | the middle of the court | with the bar of iron; on Schaibar's shoulder | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into middle=Initial_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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