The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 19, sentence 89
Seizing an immense iron rod, he mounted a powerful black horse, and with a roar like an angry lion he charged his foes.
Who acts: Korkwi · What happens: seize, mount, charge · To what, where: immense iron rod, powerful black horse, foes
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 (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 | Seizing | seize | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 mounted | advcl |
| 2 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 rod | det |
| 3 | immense | immense | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 rod | amod |
| 4 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 rod | compound |
| 5 | rod | rod | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Seizing | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Seizing | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 mounted | nsubj |
| 8 | mounted | mount | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 horse | det |
| 10 | powerful | powerful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 horse | amod |
| 11 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 horse | amod |
| 12 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 mounted | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 charged | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 charged | cc |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 roar | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 roar | det |
| 17 | roar | roar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 charged | obl |
| 18 | like | like | ADP | _ | 21 lion | case |
| 19 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 lion | det |
| 20 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 lion | amod |
| 21 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 roar | nmod |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 charged | nsubj |
| 23 | charged | charge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 mounted | conj |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 foes | nmod:poss |
| 25 | foes | foe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 charged | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 mounted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seize | gerund | Korkwi not said here | a immense iron rod | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rod=Theme | ||||
| 2 | mount | past | Korkwi | a powerful black horse | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient | ||||
| 3 | charge | past | Korkwi | Korkwi's foes | with a roar like a angry lion | vn equip-13.4.2 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP»: agent=Agent foe=Recipient with roar=Theme |
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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