The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 19, sentence 84
Then Haki lunged at Oku with his sword, but the latter caused his horse to swerve quickly, and with his lance he wounded Haki’s steed.
Who acts: Haki, latter, horse, Oku · What happens: lunge, cause, swerve, wound · To what, where: Oku, horse, steed
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 (Haki, latter, horse, Oku), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 lunged | advmod |
| 2 | Haki | Haki | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 lunged | nsubj |
| 3 | lunged | lunge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 Oku | case |
| 5 | Oku | Oku | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 lunged | obl |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 sword | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 sword | nmod:poss |
| 8 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lunged | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 caused | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 caused | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 latter | det |
| 12 | latter | latter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 caused | nsubj |
| 13 | caused | cause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 lunged | parataxis |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 horse | nmod:poss |
| 15 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 caused | obj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 swerve | mark |
| 17 | swerve | swerve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 caused | xcomp |
| 18 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 17 swerve | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 wounded | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 wounded | cc |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 lance | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 lance | nmod:poss |
| 23 | lance | lance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 wounded | obl |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 wounded | nsubj |
| 25 | wounded | wound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 lunged | conj |
| 26 | Haki | Haki | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 steed | nmod:poss |
| 27 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 26 Haki | case |
| 28 | steed | steed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 wounded | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 lunged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lunge | past | Haki | Oku | then | with Oku's sword | tree rules | ||
| 2 | cause | past | the latter | Oku's horse | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | swerve | to-infinitive | Oku's horse not said here | quickly property | vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | wound | past | Oku | Haki's steed | with Oku's lance | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus steed=Experiencer |
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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