The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 2, sentence 83
With this assurance the King returned to his palace, and very soon he saw Vira-vara return and take up his station at the palace gate.
Who acts: King · What happens: return, see, take up · To what, where: Vira vara return, station, palace 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), 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 3 assurance | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 assurance | det |
| 3 | assurance | assurance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 returned | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 King | det |
| 5 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 returned | nsubj |
| 6 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 palace | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 palace | nmod:poss |
| 9 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 returned | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 saw | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 saw | cc |
| 12 | very | very | ADV | _ | 13 soon | advmod |
| 13 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 saw | advmod |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 saw | nsubj |
| 15 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 returned | conj |
| 16 | Vira | Vira | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 return | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 Vira | punct |
| 18 | vara | vara | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 return | compound |
| 19 | return | return | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 saw | obj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 take | cc |
| 21 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 saw | conj |
| 22 | up | up | ADP | _ | 21 take | compound:prt |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 station | nmod:poss |
| 24 | station | station | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 take | obj |
| 25 | at | at | ADP | _ | 28 gate | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 gate | det |
| 27 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 gate | compound |
| 28 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 take | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past | the King | with this assurance; to King's palace result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to palace=Result | ||||
| 2 | see | past | King | Vira vara return | soon property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer return=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | take up | infinitive | King not said here | King's station | the palace gate | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent station=Theme at gate=Asset |
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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