The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 19, sentence 76
Among the warriors of Janqwi were two brilliant young warriors named Haki and Oku, and the first of these she appointed to command that part of the army which would be first to engage the enemy.
Who acts: first, army · What happens: name, appoint, command, be, engage · To what, where: two brilliant young warriors, part, enemy · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (first, army), 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 | Among | among | ADP | _ | 3 warriors | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 warriors | det |
| 3 | warriors | warrior | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 named | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Janqwi | case |
| 5 | Janqwi | Janqwi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 warriors | nmod |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 named | aux:pass |
| 7 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 warriors | nummod |
| 8 | brilliant | brilliant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 warriors | amod |
| 9 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 warriors | amod |
| 10 | warriors | warrior | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 named | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | named | name | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | Haki | Haki | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 named | xcomp |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 Oku | cc |
| 14 | Oku | Oku | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Haki | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 appointed | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 appointed | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 first | det |
| 18 | first | first | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 22 appointed | nsubj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 these | case |
| 20 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 18 first | nmod |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 appointed | nsubj |
| 22 | appointed | appoint | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 named | conj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 command | mark |
| 24 | command | command | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 appointed | xcomp |
| 25 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 26 part | det |
| 26 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 command | obj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 army | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 army | det |
| 29 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 part | nmod |
| 30 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 33 first | nsubj |
| 31 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 first | aux |
| 32 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 33 first | cop |
| 33 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 29 army | acl:relcl |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 engage | mark |
| 35 | engage | engage | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 first | acl |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 enemy | det |
| 37 | enemy | enemy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 engage | obj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 named | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | name | past · passive | two brilliant young warriors | among the warriors of Janqwi; Haki and Oku xcomp | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | appoint | past | the first of these | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | command | to-infinitive | the first of these not said here | that part of the army | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent part=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | is | would | the army | first property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | engage | to-infinitive | the enemy | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent enemy=Patient |
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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