The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 20, sentence 15
With this he turned his horse in retreat; but his idea was to take Haki off his guard, and then to turn on him and kill him without mercy.
Who acts: man, idea · What happens: turn, be, kill · To what, where: horse, man
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 (man, idea), 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 | _ | 2 this | case |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 turned | obl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 turned | nsubj |
| 4 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 horse | nmod:poss |
| 6 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 turned | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 retreat | case |
| 8 | retreat | retreat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 turned | obl |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 take | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 take | cc |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 idea | nmod:poss |
| 12 | idea | idea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 take | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 take | cop |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 take | mark |
| 15 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 turned | parataxis |
| 16 | Haki | Haki | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 take | obj |
| 17 | off | off | ADP | _ | 19 guard | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 guard | nmod:poss |
| 19 | guard | guard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 take | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 turn | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 turn | cc |
| 22 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 24 turn | advmod |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 turn | mark |
| 24 | turn | turn | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 15 take | parataxis |
| 25 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 him | case |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 turn | obl |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 kill | cc |
| 28 | kill | kill | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 24 turn | conj |
| 29 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 kill | obj |
| 30 | without | without | ADP | _ | 31 mercy | case |
| 31 | mercy | mercy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 kill | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past | man | man's horse | with this; in retreat | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent horse=Patient in retreat=Topic | |||
| 2 | is | past | man's idea | off man's guard; Haki obj; take property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | turn | to-infinitive | then | on man | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme on he=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | kill | infinitive | man | without mercy | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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