The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 2, sentence 122
He was at once arrested, and both were taken to the place of execution.
What happens: arrest, take · To what, where: murderer, both, place
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 arrested | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 arrested | aux:pass |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 once | case |
| 4 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 5 arrested | obl |
| 5 | arrested | arrest | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 taken | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 taken | cc |
| 8 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 taken | aux:pass |
| 10 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 arrested | conj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 place | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 place | det |
| 13 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 taken | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 execution | case |
| 15 | execution | execution | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 place | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 arrested | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrest | past · passive | murderer | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 2 | take | past · passive | both | the place of execution | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to place=Destination |
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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