The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 19, sentence 69
The man who rebelled was a wicked and fearsome magician named Korkwi, a giant quite terrible to look upon.
Who acts: man · What happens: rebel, be, name, look · To what, where: wicked magician
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 (man), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 man | det |
| 2 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 magician | nsubj |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 rebelled | nsubj |
| 4 | rebelled | rebel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 man | acl:relcl |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 magician | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 magician | det |
| 7 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 magician | amod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 fearsome | cc |
| 9 | fearsome | fearsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 wicked | conj |
| 10 | magician | magician | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | named | name | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 magician | acl |
| 12 | Korkwi | Korkwi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 named | xcomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 terrible | punct |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 terrible | det |
| 15 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 terrible | amod |
| 16 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 17 terrible | advmod |
| 17 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 magician | conj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 look | mark |
| 19 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 terrible | advcl |
| 20 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 19 look | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 magician | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rebel | past | the man | vn rebel-71.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | the man | a wicked magician | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | name | participle | a wicked magician not said here | Korkwi xcomp | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | be | the man not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | look | to-infinitive | the man not said here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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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