The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 2, sentence 50
The soldier at once departed on his mission, but as soon as he had gone the King repented him of sending him out alone into a night so dark that a hole might be pierced in it with a needle, so he took his scimitar, and followed his guard beyond the city gates.
Who acts: soldier, King · What happens: depart, go, repent, send out, pierce, take · To what, where: soldier, mission, King, hole, scimitar, guard
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: who acts (soldier, King), 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 soldier | det |
| 2 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 repented | nsubj |
| 3 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 5 departed | mark |
| 4 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 5 departed | advmod |
| 5 | departed | depart | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 soldier | acl |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 mission | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 mission | nmod:poss |
| 8 | mission | mission | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 departed | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 gone | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 gone | cc |
| 11 | as | as | ADV | _ | 12 soon | advmod |
| 12 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 16 gone | advmod |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 16 gone | mark |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 gone | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 gone | aux |
| 16 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 19 repented | advcl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 King | det |
| 18 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 repented | nsubj |
| 19 | repented | repent | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 repented | obj |
| 21 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 22 sending | mark |
| 22 | sending | send | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 repented | advcl |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 sending | obj |
| 24 | out | out | ADP | _ | 22 sending | compound:prt |
| 25 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 22 sending | advmod |
| 26 | into | into | ADP | _ | 28 night | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 night | det |
| 28 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 sending | obl |
| 29 | so | so | ADV | _ | 30 dark | advmod |
| 30 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 night | amod |
| 31 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 36 pierced | mark |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 hole | det |
| 33 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 pierced | nsubj:pass |
| 34 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 36 pierced | aux |
| 35 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 36 pierced | aux:pass |
| 36 | pierced | pierce | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 dark | advcl |
| 37 | in | in | ADP | _ | 38 it | case |
| 38 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 pierced | obl |
| 39 | with | with | ADP | _ | 41 needle | case |
| 40 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 41 needle | det |
| 41 | needle | needle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 pierced | obl |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 took | punct |
| 43 | so | so | ADV | _ | 45 took | advmod |
| 44 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 took | nsubj |
| 45 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 repented | parataxis |
| 46 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 47 scimitar | nmod:poss |
| 47 | scimitar | scimitar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 took | obj |
| 48 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 50 followed | punct |
| 49 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 50 followed | cc |
| 50 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 45 took | conj |
| 51 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 52 guard | nmod:poss |
| 52 | guard | guard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 followed | obj |
| 53 | beyond | beyond | ADP | _ | 56 gates | case |
| 54 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 56 gates | det |
| 55 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 56 gates | compound |
| 56 | gates | gate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 50 followed | obl |
| 57 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 repented | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | depart | participle | the soldier not said here | soldier's mission | once property | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | go | past · perfect | soldier | soon property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | repent | past | the soldier | King | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | send out | gerund | the soldier not said here | King | night | alone property | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||
| 5 | pierce | might · passive | a hole | mission | with a needle | vn poke-19-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with needle=Instrument | |||
| 6 | take | past | King | King's scimitar | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scimitar=Theme | ||||
| 7 | follow | past | King not said here | King's guard | the city gates | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent guard=Theme beyond gate=Trajectory |
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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