The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 19, sentence 85
Haki at once dismounted and prepared to rush at his comrade when Oku, with lightning rapidity, tore the badge of leadership from Haki’s helmet, and galloped quickly away.
Who acts: Haki, Oku · What happens: dismount, prepare, rush, tore, gallop, badge · To what, where: comrade, badge, helmet, leadership
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, 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 | Haki | Haki | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 dismounted | nsubj |
| 2 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 4 dismounted | mark |
| 3 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 4 dismounted | advmod |
| 4 | dismounted | dismount | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 prepared | cc |
| 6 | prepared | prepare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 dismounted | conj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 rush | mark |
| 8 | rush | rush | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 prepared | xcomp |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 comrade | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 comrade | nmod:poss |
| 11 | comrade | comrade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 rush | obl |
| 12 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 19 tore | advmod |
| 13 | Oku | Oku | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 tore | nsubj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 rapidity | punct |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 rapidity | case |
| 16 | lightning | lightning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 rapidity | compound |
| 17 | rapidity | rapidity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Oku | appos |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Oku | punct |
| 19 | tore | tore | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 rush | advcl |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 badge | det |
| 21 | badge | badge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 tore | obj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 leadership | case |
| 23 | leadership | leadership | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 badge | nmod |
| 24 | from | from | ADP | _ | 27 helmet | case |
| 25 | Haki | Haki | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 helmet | nmod:poss |
| 26 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 25 Haki | case |
| 27 | helmet | helmet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 tore | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 galloped | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 galloped | cc |
| 30 | galloped | gallop | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 dismounted | conj |
| 31 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 32 away | advmod |
| 32 | away | away | ADV | _ | 30 galloped | advmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 dismounted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dismount | participle | Haki | once property | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | prepare | participle | Haki not said here | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | rush not said to happen | to-infinitive | Haki not said here | Oku's comrade | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at comrade=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | tore | past | Oku | the badge of leadership | Haki's helmet | tree rules | |||
| 5 | gallop | past | Haki not said here | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | badge | leadership | nom badge «communication transitive»: of=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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