The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 15, sentence 66
On the fourth day the leader was wounded and fell dead, and then, one by one, the other six fell.
Who acts: leader, one · What happens: be, fall
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 (leader, one), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 4 day | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 day | det |
| 3 | fourth | fourth | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 day | amod |
| 4 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 wounded | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 leader | det |
| 6 | leader | leader | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 wounded | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 wounded | cop |
| 8 | wounded | wounded | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 fell | cc |
| 10 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 wounded | conj |
| 11 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 fell | xcomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 fell | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 fell | cc |
| 14 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 one | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 one | punct |
| 16 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 fell | nsubj |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 one | case |
| 18 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 one | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 six | punct |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 six | det |
| 21 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 six | amod |
| 22 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 one | conj |
| 23 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 wounded | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 wounded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the leader | day | wounded property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | fall | past | the leader not said here | dead property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | fall | past | one by one | vn occur-48.3 «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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