The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 20, sentence 10
For a long time they fought without advantage to either, then Oku began to tire, and his comrade, seeing this, took his place.
Who acts: Shiku, Oku, comrade · What happens: fight, begin, tire, see, take · To what, where: this, place
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Shiku, Oku, comrade), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 3 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 time | amod |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fought | obl |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 fought | nsubj |
| 6 | fought | fight | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | without | without | ADP | _ | 8 advantage | case |
| 8 | advantage | advantage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fought | obl |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 either | case |
| 10 | either | either | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 fought | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 began | punct |
| 12 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 began | advmod |
| 13 | Oku | Oku | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 began | nsubj |
| 14 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 fought | conj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 tire | mark |
| 16 | tire | tire | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 began | xcomp |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 took | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 took | cc |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 comrade | nmod:poss |
| 20 | comrade | comrade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 took | nsubj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 seeing | punct |
| 22 | seeing | see | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 comrade | acl |
| 23 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 seeing | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 comrade | punct |
| 25 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 fought | conj |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 place | nmod:poss |
| 27 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 took | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 fought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fight | past | Shiku | time | without advantage; to either | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | begin | past | Oku | then | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | tire | to-infinitive | Oku not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | see | gerund | Oku's comrade not said here | this | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | take | past | Oku's comrade | Oku's place | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme |
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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