The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 20, sentence 25
Then Shiku, taking with him the body of his enemy, returned to the Empress Janqwi, victorious.
Who acts: Shiku · What happens: take, return · To what, where: body
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), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 Shiku | advmod |
| 2 | Shiku | Shiku | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 returned | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 taking | punct |
| 4 | taking | take | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 Shiku | acl |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 him | case |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 taking | obl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 body | det |
| 8 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 taking | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 enemy | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 enemy | nmod:poss |
| 11 | enemy | enemy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 body | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Shiku | punct |
| 13 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 Janqwi | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Janqwi | det |
| 16 | Empress | Empress | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Janqwi | compound |
| 17 | Janqwi | Janqwi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 returned | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 victorious | punct |
| 19 | victorious | victorious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 Janqwi | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | gerund | Shiku not said here | the body of Korkwi's enemy | with Korkwi | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent body=Theme | |||
| 2 | return | past | Shiku | to the Empress Janqwi result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to janqwi=Result |
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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