The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 19, sentence 96
Drawing his huge sword, he was about to sever his head from his body when Oku wheeled his horse right in front of him, and at once attacked the magician.
Who acts: Korkwi, Oku · What happens: draw, be, sever, wheel, attack · To what, where: huge sword, head, body, horse, front, magician
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, Oku), 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 | Drawing | draw | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 about | csubj |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 sword | nmod:poss |
| 3 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 sword | amod |
| 4 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Drawing | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Drawing | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 about | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 about | cop |
| 8 | about | about | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 sever | mark |
| 10 | sever | sever | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 about | xcomp |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 head | nmod:poss |
| 12 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sever | obj |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 body | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 body | nmod:poss |
| 15 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sever | obl |
| 16 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 wheeled | advmod |
| 17 | Oku | Oku | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 wheeled | nsubj |
| 18 | wheeled | wheel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 sever | advcl |
| 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 wheeled | obj |
| 21 | right | right | ADV | _ | 23 front | advmod |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 front | case |
| 23 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 wheeled | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 him | case |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 front | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 attacked | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 attacked | cc |
| 28 | at | at | ADP | _ | 29 once | case |
| 29 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 30 attacked | obl |
| 30 | attacked | attack | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 about | conj |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 magician | det |
| 32 | magician | magician | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 attacked | obj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 about | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw | gerund | Korkwi's huge sword | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is | past | Korkwi | about property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | sever | to-infinitive | Korkwi not said here | Korkwi's head | Korkwi's body | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent head=Theme from body=Initial_Location | |||
| 4 | wheel | past | Oku | Korkwi's horse | front of Korkwi | vn drive-11.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Theme | |||
| 5 | attack | past | Korkwi not said here | the magician | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent magician=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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