The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 15, sentence 5
They stayed not to look behind them; insomuch that Schaibar and Prince Ahmed, as they went along, found all the streets and squares desolate, till they came to the palace, where the guards, instead of preventing Schaibar from entering, ran away too.
Who acts: people, streets, guards · What happens: stay, not look, go along, find, desolate, come · To what, where: streets, palace, Schaibar, entering
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 (people, streets, guards), 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 stayed | nsubj |
| 2 | stayed | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 look | advmod |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 look | mark |
| 5 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 stayed | advcl |
| 6 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 7 them | case |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 look | obl |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 insomuch | punct |
| 9 | insomuch | insomuch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 stayed | parataxis |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 Ahmed | mark |
| 11 | Schaibar | Schaibar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Ahmed | compound |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 Prince | cc |
| 13 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Schaibar | conj |
| 14 | Ahmed | Ahmed | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 insomuch | appos |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 went | punct |
| 16 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 18 went | mark |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 went | nsubj |
| 18 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 stayed | conj |
| 19 | along | along | ADV | _ | 18 went | advmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 found | punct |
| 21 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 stayed | parataxis |
| 22 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 24 streets | det:predet |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 streets | det |
| 24 | streets | street | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 found | obj |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 squares | cc |
| 26 | squares | square | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 streets | conj |
| 27 | desolate | desolate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 streets | acl:relcl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 came | punct |
| 29 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 31 came | mark |
| 30 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 came | nsubj |
| 31 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 found | conj |
| 32 | to | to | ADP | _ | 34 palace | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 palace | det |
| 34 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 came | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 ran | punct |
| 36 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 47 ran | advmod |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 guards | det |
| 38 | guards | guard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 47 ran | nsubj |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 preventing | punct |
| 40 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=SCONJ | 42 preventing | mark |
| 41 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 instead | fixed |
| 42 | preventing | prevent | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 38 guards | acl |
| 43 | Schaibar | Schaibar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 42 preventing | obj |
| 44 | from | from | ADP | _ | 45 entering | case |
| 45 | entering | entering | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 preventing | obl |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 guards | punct |
| 47 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 palace | acl:relcl |
| 48 | away | away | ADV | _ | 47 ran | advmod |
| 49 | too | too | ADV | _ | 47 ran | advmod |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 stayed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay | past | people | insomuch parataxis | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not look | to-infinitive | people not said here | behind people | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent behind they=Theme | ||||
| 3 | go along | past | people | along property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | find | past | all streets and squares | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent street=Topic | |||||
| 5 | desolate | present | all streets and squares not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | come | past | people | the palace | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to palace=Initial_Location | ||||
| 7 | prevent | gerund | the guards not said here | Schaibar | entering | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer schaibar=Beneficiary from entering=Eventuality | |||
| 8 | run away | past | the guards | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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