The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 19, sentence 101
Korkwi turned, and fitting an arrow to his bow, aimed the shaft at Oku, who, being on horseback, was ahead of his comrade.
Who acts: Korkwi, Oku · What happens: turn, fit, aim, be · To what, where: arrow, bow, shaft, Oku, horseback
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Korkwi, Oku), 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 | Korkwi | Korkwi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 turned | nsubj |
| 2 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 fitting | punct |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 fitting | cc |
| 5 | fitting | fit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 turned | advcl |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 arrow | det |
| 7 | arrow | arrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fitting | obj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 bow | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 bow | nmod:poss |
| 10 | bow | bow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fitting | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 aimed | punct |
| 12 | aimed | aim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 turned | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 shaft | det |
| 14 | shaft | shaft | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 aimed | obj |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 Oku | case |
| 16 | Oku | Oku | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 aimed | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 horseback | punct |
| 18 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 horseback | nsubj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 horseback | punct |
| 20 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 horseback | cop |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 horseback | case |
| 22 | horseback | horseback | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 Oku | appos |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 ahead | punct |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 ahead | cop |
| 25 | ahead | ahead | ADV | _ | 12 aimed | advmod |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 comrade | case |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 comrade | nmod:poss |
| 28 | comrade | comrade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 ahead | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past | Korkwi | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | fit | gerund | Korkwi not said here | a arrow | to Korkwi's bow goal | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent arrow=Patient to bow=Goal | |||
| 3 | aim | past | Korkwi not said here | the shaft | Oku | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot shaft=Theme | |||
| 4 | is | gerund | Oku | horseback | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | is | past | of Korkwi's comrade; ahead property | 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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