The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 20, sentence 56

Then he saddled his Arab horse Bhanur, put on his shining armor; and rode forth into the world; but, mindful of what his nurses had oft told him, when he came to the river, he dismounted, and going into the water, washed himself and his clothes.

Who acts: child, nurses · What happens: saddle, put, shine, ride, have, tell · To what, where: Arab horse, shining armor, world, child, river, water · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (child, nurses), 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 saddled	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 saddled	nsubj
3	saddled	saddle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 horse	nmod:poss
5	Arab	Arab	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 horse	amod
6	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 saddled	obj
7	Bhanur	Bhanur	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 horse	appos
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 put	punct
9	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 saddled	conj
10	on	on	ADP	_	13 armor	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 armor	nmod:poss
12	shining	shine	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 armor	amod
13	armor	armor	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 put	obl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 rode	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 rode	cc
16	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 saddled	conj
17	forth	forth	ADV	_	16 rode	advmod
18	into	into	ADP	_	20 world	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 world	det
20	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 rode	obl
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 mindful	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 mindful	cc
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 mindful	punct
24	mindful	mindful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 saddled	parataxis
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 what	case
26	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 mindful	obl
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 nurses	nmod:poss
28	nurses	nurse	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 had	nsubj
29	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 what	acl:relcl
30	oft	oft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 had	xcomp
31	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 oft	csubj
32	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 told	iobj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 came	punct
34	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	36 came	advmod
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 came	nsubj
36	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 mindful	conj
37	to	to	ADP	_	39 river	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 river	det
39	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 came	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 dismounted	punct
41	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 dismounted	nsubj
42	dismounted	dismount	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 saddled	conj
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 washed	punct
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 washed	cc
45	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	50 washed	advcl
46	into	into	ADP	_	48 water	case
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 water	det
48	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 going	obl
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 going	punct
50	washed	wash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 dismounted	conj
51	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	50 washed	obj
52	and	and	CCONJ	_	54 clothes	cc
53	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	54 clothes	nmod:poss
54	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	51 himself	conj
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 saddled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	saddle	past	child		child's Arab horse		then		vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent horse=Destination
2	put	past	child not said here			child's shining armor			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on armor=Destination
3	shine	gerund							vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	ride	past	child not said here			the world		forth property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent into world=Trajectory
5	have	past	child's nurses					oft property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	tell speech: assert	participle			child				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
7	come	past	child			the river			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to river=Initial_Location
8	dismount	past	child						vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
9	go	gerund				the water			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into water=Initial_Location
10	wash	past	child not said here	child					vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=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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The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 20, sentence 56