The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 19, sentence 94
Then Korkwi aimed a blow at Haki’s head, and in order to avoid this Haki turned his horse too quickly, so that the animal’s rear hoof struck against a large stone.
Who acts: Korkwi, Haki · What happens: aim, avoid, turn, strike · To what, where: blow, head, horse, rear hoof, large stone
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, Haki), 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 aimed | advmod |
| 2 | Korkwi | Korkwi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 aimed | nsubj |
| 3 | aimed | aim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 blow | det |
| 5 | blow | blow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 aimed | obj |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 head | case |
| 7 | Haki | Haki | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 head | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 7 Haki | case |
| 9 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 blow | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 avoid | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 avoid | cc |
| 12 | in | in | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 15 avoid | mark |
| 13 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 in | fixed |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 avoid | mark |
| 15 | avoid | avoid | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 aimed | advcl |
| 16 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 Haki | det |
| 17 | Haki | Haki | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 turned | nsubj |
| 18 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 avoid | ccomp |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 horse | nmod:poss |
| 20 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 turned | obj |
| 21 | too | too | ADV | _ | 22 quickly | advmod |
| 22 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 18 turned | advmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 hoof | punct |
| 24 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 30 hoof | case |
| 25 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 so | fixed |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 animal | det |
| 27 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 hoof | nmod:poss |
| 28 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 27 animal | case |
| 29 | rear | rear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 hoof | amod |
| 30 | hoof | hoof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 avoid | obl |
| 31 | struck | strike | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 hoof | acl |
| 32 | against | against | ADP | _ | 35 stone | case |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 stone | det |
| 34 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 stone | amod |
| 35 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 struck | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 aimed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | aim | past | Korkwi | a blow | Haki's head | then | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot blow=Theme | ||
| 2 | avoid | to-infinitive | Korkwi not said here | so the animal's rear hoof | vn avoid-52 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 3 | turn | past | this Haki | Korkwi's horse | quickly property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent horse=Theme | |||
| 4 | strike | participle | the animal's rear hoof not said here | a large stone | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme against stone=Location |
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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