The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 19, sentence 7
At length the young prince set forth on his journey, accompanied by his tutor and former governess and a numerous retinue.
Who acts: infant · What happens: set, accompany, journey · To what, where: young prince, journey, length
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 (infant), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 length | case |
| 2 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 prince | det |
| 4 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 prince | amod |
| 5 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 length | appos |
| 6 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 prince | acl |
| 7 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 6 set | advmod |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 journey | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 journey | nmod:poss |
| 10 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 set | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 accompanied | punct |
| 12 | accompanied | accompany | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 journey | acl |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 tutor | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 tutor | nmod:poss |
| 15 | tutor | tutor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 accompanied | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 governess | cc |
| 17 | former | former | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 governess | amod |
| 18 | governess | governess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 tutor | conj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 retinue | cc |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 retinue | det |
| 21 | numerous | numerous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 retinue | amod |
| 22 | retinue | retinue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 tutor | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 length | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set | participle | the young prince not said here | infant's journey | forth property | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on journey=Destination | |||
| 2 | accompany | participle | infant's journey not said here | by infant's tutor and former governess and a numerous retinue | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by tutor=Destination | ||||
| 4 | journey | infant | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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