The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 15, sentence 65
For three days and nights they contended, and never before had the seven seen one man so brave.
Who acts: weapons, seven · What happens: contend, have, see, man
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 (weapons, seven), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 days | case |
| 2 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 days | nummod |
| 3 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 contended | obl |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 nights | cc |
| 5 | nights | night | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 days | conj |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 contended | nsubj |
| 7 | contended | contend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 had | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 had | cc |
| 10 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 11 before | advmod |
| 11 | before | before | ADV | _ | 12 had | advmod |
| 12 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 contended | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 man | det |
| 14 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 man | nsubj |
| 15 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 man | amod |
| 16 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 man | nummod |
| 17 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 had | obj |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 brave | advmod |
| 19 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 had | xcomp |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 contended | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | contend | past | weapons = weapon | day | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | have | past | weapons = weapon not said here | never | before, brave property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | see | participle | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 4 | man | seven | tree rules |
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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