The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 19, sentence 92
But the wizard was a fierce fighter, and his iron rod a fearful weapon.
Who acts: wizard, iron rod · What happens: be, weapon · To what, where: fierce fighter
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 (wizard, iron rod), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 fighter | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 wizard | det |
| 3 | wizard | wizard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fighter | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 fighter | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 fighter | det |
| 6 | fierce | fierce | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 fighter | amod |
| 7 | fighter | fighter | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 weapon | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 weapon | cc |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 rod | nmod:poss |
| 11 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 rod | compound |
| 12 | rod | rod | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 weapon | nsubj |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 weapon | det |
| 14 | fearful | fearful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 weapon | amod |
| 15 | weapon | weapon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fighter | parataxis |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 fighter | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the wizard | a fierce fighter | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | weapon | Korkwi's iron rod | tree rules |
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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