The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 20, sentence 52
And with him they sent a young colt, born the same day, and sword, spear, and shield, against the day when Rajah Rasalu should go forth into the world.
Who acts: parents, Rajah · What happens: send, bear, go · To what, where: young colt, world
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 (parents, Rajah), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 sent | cc |
| 2 | with | with | ADP | _ | 3 him | case |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 sent | obl |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 sent | nsubj |
| 5 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 colt | det |
| 7 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 colt | amod |
| 8 | colt | colt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sent | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 born | punct |
| 10 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 colt | acl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 day | det |
| 12 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 day | amod |
| 13 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 born | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 sword | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 sword | cc |
| 16 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sent | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 spear | punct |
| 18 | spear | spear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sword | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 shield | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 shield | cc |
| 21 | shield | shield | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sent | parataxis |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 day | punct |
| 23 | against | against | ADP | _ | 25 day | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 day | det |
| 25 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sent | obl:unmarked |
| 26 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 30 go | advmod |
| 27 | Rajah | Rajah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 go | nsubj |
| 28 | Rasalu | Rasalu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Rajah | flat |
| 29 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 go | aux |
| 30 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 day | acl:relcl |
| 31 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 30 go | advmod |
| 32 | into | into | ADP | _ | 34 world | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 world | det |
| 34 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 go | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | parents = parent | a young colt | day | with child; sword and spear obl; shield parataxis | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent colt=Theme | ||
| 2 | bear | participle | a young colt not said here | day | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | go | should | Rajah | the world | forth property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into world=Initial_Location |
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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