The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 20, sentence 5
Shiku, accompanied by Haki and Oku, marched at the head of his army against Korkwi, who, knowing that water would extinguish fire, laughed at him.
Who acts: Shiku, water · What happens: accompany, march, know, extinguish, laugh · To what, where: Shiku, head, fire
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, water), 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 | Shiku | Shiku | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 marched | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 accompanied | punct |
| 3 | accompanied | accompany | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Shiku | acl |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 5 Haki | case |
| 5 | Haki | Haki | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 accompanied | obl:agent |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 Oku | cc |
| 7 | Oku | Oku | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Haki | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Shiku | punct |
| 9 | marched | march | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 head | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 head | det |
| 12 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 marched | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 army | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 army | nmod:poss |
| 15 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 head | nmod |
| 16 | against | against | ADP | _ | 17 Korkwi | case |
| 17 | Korkwi | Korkwi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 marched | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 knowing | punct |
| 19 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 knowing | nsubj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 knowing | punct |
| 21 | knowing | know | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 marched | advcl |
| 22 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 extinguish | mark |
| 23 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 extinguish | nsubj |
| 24 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 extinguish | aux |
| 25 | extinguish | extinguish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 knowing | xcomp |
| 26 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 extinguish | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 laughed | punct |
| 28 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 marched | conj |
| 29 | at | at | ADP | _ | 30 him | case |
| 30 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 laughed | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 marched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | accompany | participle | Shiku not said here | Haki and Oku obl:agent | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | march | past | Shiku | the head of Oku's army | against Korkwi | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at head=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | know | gerund | who nsubj | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | extinguish | would | water | fire | vn remedy-45.7-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent fire=Patient | ||||
| 5 | laugh | past | Shiku not said here | at fire | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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