The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 19, sentence 78
He had mounted his favorite charger and had just started for the front when he heard his name called loudly by someone who was galloping behind him.
Who acts: honor · What happens: mount, start, hear, call, gallop, name · To what, where: favorite charger, name · 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 (honor), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 mounted | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 mounted | aux |
| 3 | mounted | mount | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 charger | nmod:poss |
| 5 | favorite | favorite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 charger | amod |
| 6 | charger | charger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 mounted | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 started | cc |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 started | aux |
| 9 | just | just | ADV | _ | 10 started | advmod |
| 10 | started | start | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 mounted | conj |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 front | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 front | det |
| 13 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 started | obl |
| 14 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 heard | advmod |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 heard | nsubj |
| 16 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 started | advcl |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 name | nmod:poss |
| 18 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 heard | obj |
| 19 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 name | acl |
| 20 | loudly | loudly | ADV | _ | 19 called | advmod |
| 21 | by | by | ADP | _ | 22 someone | case |
| 22 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 19 called | obl |
| 23 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 galloping | nsubj |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 galloping | aux |
| 25 | galloping | gallop | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 someone | acl:relcl |
| 26 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 27 him | case |
| 27 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 galloping | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 mounted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mount | past · perfect | honor | honor's favorite charger | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent charger=Patient | ||||
| 2 | start | past · perfect | honor not said here | for the front | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | hear | past | honor | honor's name | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer name=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | call | participle | honor's name not said here | by someone; loudly property | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | gallop | past · progressive | behind honor; who nsubj | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme behind he=Trajectory | |||||
| 6 | name | honor | nom name «communication 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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