The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 20, sentence 37
Then Shiku had recourse to his magic, and he produced a chariot which could race through the air at unbelievable speed.
Who acts: Shiku, man, chariot · What happens: have, produce, race · To what, where: recourse, chariot, air
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, man, chariot), 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 | 3 had | advmod |
| 2 | Shiku | Shiku | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | recourse | recourse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | obj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 magic | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 magic | nmod:poss |
| 7 | magic | magic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 produced | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 produced | cc |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 produced | nsubj |
| 11 | produced | produce | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 had | conj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 chariot | det |
| 13 | chariot | chariot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 produced | obj |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 race | nsubj |
| 15 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 race | aux |
| 16 | race | race | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 chariot | acl:relcl |
| 17 | through | through | ADP | _ | 19 air | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 air | det |
| 19 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 race | obl |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 speed | case |
| 21 | unbelievable | unbelievable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 speed | amod |
| 22 | speed | speed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 race | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Shiku | recourse | then | to man's magic | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent recourse=Patient | ||
| 2 | produce | past | man | a chariot | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chariot=Result | ||||
| 3 | race | could | a chariot | the air | at unbelievable speed | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through air=Trajectory |
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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