The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 2, sentence 68
Now all this was seen and heard by King Sudraka, who was just entering the gate of the temple, but so quickly did it happen, that he was unable to stop it.
Who acts: King, it · What happens: see, hear, enter, happen, be, stop · To what, where: this, gate
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 (King, it), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 seen | advmod |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 seen | det:predet |
| 3 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 seen | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 seen | aux:pass |
| 5 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 heard | cc |
| 7 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 seen | conj |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 King | case |
| 9 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 heard | obl |
| 10 | Sudraka | Sudraka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 King | flat |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 entering | punct |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 entering | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 entering | aux |
| 14 | just | just | ADV | _ | 15 entering | advmod |
| 15 | entering | enter | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 King | acl:relcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 gate | det |
| 17 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 entering | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 temple | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 temple | det |
| 20 | temple | temple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 gate | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 happen | punct |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 27 happen | cc |
| 23 | so | so | ADV | _ | 24 quickly | advmod |
| 24 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 27 happen | advmod |
| 25 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 happen | aux |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 happen | nsubj |
| 27 | happen | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 seen | parataxis |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 unable | punct |
| 29 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 32 unable | mark |
| 30 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 unable | nsubj |
| 31 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 unable | cop |
| 32 | unable | unable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 happen | conj |
| 33 | to | to | PART | _ | 34 stop | mark |
| 34 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 unable | xcomp |
| 35 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 stop | obj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 seen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past · passive | this | now | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | hear | participle | by King | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | enter | past · progressive | King | the gate of the temple | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme gate=Destination | ||||
| 4 | happen | past · do-support | it | quickly property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | is | past | King | unable property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | stop | to-infinitive | King not said here | gate | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality it=Eventuality |
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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