The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 20, sentence 11
Being fresh, he began to prove more than a match for Korkwi, who now desired to retire from the fight.
Who acts: comrade, match · What happens: be, begin, prove, desire, retire · To what, where: match, fight
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 (comrade, match), 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 | Being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 fresh | cop |
| 2 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 began | punct |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 began | nsubj |
| 5 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 fresh | parataxis |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 prove | mark |
| 7 | prove | prove | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 began | xcomp |
| 8 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV | 11 match | advmod |
| 9 | than | than | ADP | _ | 8 more | fixed |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 match | det |
| 11 | match | match | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 prove | obj |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 Korkwi | case |
| 13 | Korkwi | Korkwi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 match | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 desired | punct |
| 15 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 desired | nsubj |
| 16 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 desired | advmod |
| 17 | desired | desire | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 match | acl:relcl |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 retire | mark |
| 19 | retire | retire | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 desired | xcomp |
| 20 | from | from | ADP | _ | 22 fight | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 fight | det |
| 22 | fight | fight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 retire | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 fresh | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | gerund | fresh property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | begin | past | comrade | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | prove | to-infinitive | comrade not said here | a match | for Korkwi | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent match=Theme | |||
| 4 | desire | participle | a match | now | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||
| 5 | retire not said to happen | to-infinitive | a match not said here | the fight | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from fight=Source |
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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