The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 19, sentence 95
The horse suddenly reared up straight, and threw Haki to the ground, and Korkwi thought he had his enemy at his mercy.
Who acts: horse, Korkwi · What happens: rear up, throw, think, have · To what, where: Haki, ground, enemy, mercy · 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 (horse, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 horse | det |
| 2 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 reared | nsubj |
| 3 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 4 reared | advmod |
| 4 | reared | rear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 reared | compound:prt |
| 6 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 4 reared | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 threw | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 threw | cc |
| 9 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 reared | parataxis |
| 10 | Haki | Haki | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 threw | obj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 ground | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 ground | det |
| 13 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 threw | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 thought | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 thought | cc |
| 16 | Korkwi | Korkwi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 thought | nsubj |
| 17 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 reared | conj |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 had | nsubj |
| 19 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 thought | ccomp |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 enemy | nmod:poss |
| 21 | enemy | enemy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 had | obj |
| 22 | at | at | ADP | _ | 24 mercy | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 mercy | nmod:poss |
| 24 | mercy | mercy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 had | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 reared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rear up | past | the horse | straight, suddenly property | vn rear-26.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | throw | past | Haki | the ground | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent haki=Theme to ground=Destination | ||||
| 3 | think speech: other | past | Korkwi | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | have | past | Korkwi | Korkwi's enemy | Korkwi's mercy | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent enemy=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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