The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 19, sentence 107
Seeing that his enemies were now safe, Korkwi turned furiously upon their preserver.
Who acts: Korkwi, enemies · What happens: see, be, turn · To what, where: preserver
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, enemies), 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 | Seeing | see | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 turned | advcl |
| 2 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 safe | mark |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 enemies | nmod:poss |
| 4 | enemies | enemy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 safe | nsubj |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 safe | cop |
| 6 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 safe | advmod |
| 7 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Seeing | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Seeing | punct |
| 9 | Korkwi | Korkwi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 turned | nsubj |
| 10 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | furiously | furiously | ADV | _ | 10 turned | advmod |
| 12 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 14 preserver | case |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 preserver | nmod:poss |
| 14 | preserver | preserver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 turned | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | gerund | Korkwi not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is | past | snow's enemies | now | safe property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | turn | past | Korkwi | warriors's preserver | furiously property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme upon preserver=Trajectory |
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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