The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 17, sentence 97
When the boat was come to the prince and Mobarec, the monstrous boatman took them up one after the other with his trunk, put them into his boat, and carried them over the lake in a moment.
Who acts: monstrous boatman · What happens: come, take up, put, carry · To what, where: boat, head, lake
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (monstrous boatman), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 come | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 boat | det |
| 3 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 come | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 come | aux:pass |
| 5 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 prince | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 prince | det |
| 8 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 come | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 Mobarec | cc |
| 10 | Mobarec | Mobarec | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 prince | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 took | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 boatman | det |
| 13 | monstrous | monstrous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 boatman | amod |
| 14 | boatman | boatman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 took | nsubj |
| 15 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 come | conj |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 took | obj |
| 17 | up | up | ADP | _ | 15 took | compound:prt |
| 18 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 took | obj |
| 19 | after | after | ADP | _ | 21 other | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 other | det |
| 21 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 one | parataxis |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 trunk | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 trunk | nmod:poss |
| 24 | trunk | trunk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 other | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 put | punct |
| 26 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 took | conj |
| 27 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 put | obj |
| 28 | into | into | ADP | _ | 30 boat | case |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 boat | nmod:poss |
| 30 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 put | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 carried | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 carried | cc |
| 33 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 took | conj |
| 34 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 carried | obj |
| 35 | over | over | ADP | _ | 37 lake | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 lake | det |
| 37 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 carried | obl |
| 38 | in | in | ADP | _ | 40 moment | case |
| 39 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 moment | det |
| 40 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 carried | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past · passive | the boat | to the prince and Mobarec | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | take up | past | the monstrous boatman | head | one obj | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument they=Theme one=Destination | |||
| 3 | put | infinitive | the monstrous boatman not said here | head | boatman's boat | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent they=Goal | |||
| 4 | carry | past | the monstrous boatman not said here | head | the lake | moment | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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