The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 19, sentence 88
They soon reached the place which the rebel had fortified, and Korkwi thought it would be easy, with all the power that he possessed, to frighten them into submission.
Who acts: Haki, Korkwi · What happens: reach, fortify, think, be, possess, frighten · To what, where: place, Haki, submission · 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 (Haki, Korkwi), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 reached | nsubj |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 reached | advmod |
| 3 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 place | det |
| 5 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 reached | obj |
| 6 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 fortified | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 rebel | det |
| 8 | rebel | rebel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 fortified | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 fortified | aux |
| 10 | fortified | fortify | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 place | acl:relcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 thought | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 thought | cc |
| 13 | Korkwi | Korkwi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 thought | nsubj |
| 14 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 reached | conj |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 easy | expl |
| 16 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 easy | aux |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 easy | cop |
| 18 | easy | easy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 thought | ccomp |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 power | punct |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 power | case |
| 21 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 power | det:predet |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 power | det |
| 23 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 easy | conj |
| 24 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 26 possessed | mark |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 possessed | nsubj |
| 26 | possessed | possess | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 power | advcl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 frighten | punct |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 frighten | mark |
| 29 | frighten | frighten | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 possessed | advcl |
| 30 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 frighten | obj |
| 31 | into | into | ADP | _ | 32 submission | case |
| 32 | submission | submission | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 frighten | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 reached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | Haki | the place | soon property | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent place=Theme | |||
| 2 | fortify | past · perfect · passive | the place | the rebel nsubj:pass | vn equip-13.4.2-1-1 «NP.theme V NP»: subject=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | think speech: other | past | Korkwi | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is | would | all power conj; easy property | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | possess | past | Korkwi | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 6 | frighten | to-infinitive | Korkwi not said here | Haki | submission | vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent they=Patient into submission=Eventuality |
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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