The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 20, sentence 22
His magic was useless to him, because Shiku knew more than he did, so, frenzied with pain and disappointment, he dashed his head against the rocks of Mount Kuri, and so perished.
Who acts: magic, Shiku, Korkwi · What happens: be, know, do, frenzy, dash, perish · To what, where: Korkwi, more, head
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 (magic, Shiku, Korkwi), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 magic | nmod:poss |
| 2 | magic | magic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 useless | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 useless | cop |
| 4 | useless | useless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 him | case |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 useless | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 knew | punct |
| 8 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 10 knew | mark |
| 9 | Shiku | Shiku | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 knew | nsubj |
| 10 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 useless | conj |
| 11 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 10 knew | obj |
| 12 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 14 did | mark |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 did | nsubj |
| 14 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 more | advcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 frenzied | punct |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 frenzied | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 frenzied | punct |
| 18 | frenzied | frenzy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 useless | conj |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 pain | case |
| 20 | pain | pain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 frenzied | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 disappointment | cc |
| 22 | disappointment | disappointment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 pain | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 dashed | punct |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 dashed | nsubj |
| 25 | dashed | dash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 useless | conj |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 head | nmod:poss |
| 27 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 dashed | obj |
| 28 | against | against | ADP | _ | 30 rocks | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 rocks | det |
| 30 | rocks | rock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 dashed | obl |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 Mount | case |
| 32 | Mount | Mount | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 rocks | nmod |
| 33 | Kuri | Kuri | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 Mount | flat |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 perished | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 perished | cc |
| 36 | so | so | ADV | _ | 37 perished | advmod |
| 37 | perished | perish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 useless | parataxis |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 useless | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Korkwi's magic | Korkwi | useless property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | know | past | Shiku | more | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer more=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | do | past | Korkwi | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | frenzy | participle | Korkwi's magic not said here | with pain and disappointment | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | dash | past | Korkwi | Korkwi's head | against the rocks of Mount | vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent head=Instrument against rock=Patient | |||
| 6 | perish | participle | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
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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