The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 20, sentence 6
As the army approached, the magician caused the water to rise, thinking to speedily destroy his foes.
Who acts: army, magician · What happens: approach, cause, rise, think, destroy · To what, where: water, foes · 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 (army, magician), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 approached | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 army | det |
| 3 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 approached | nsubj |
| 4 | approached | approach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 caused | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 approached | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 magician | det |
| 7 | magician | magician | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 caused | nsubj |
| 8 | caused | cause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 water | det |
| 10 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 caused | obj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 rise | mark |
| 12 | rise | rise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 water | acl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 thinking | punct |
| 14 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 caused | advcl |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 destroy | case |
| 16 | speedily | speedily | ADV | _ | 17 destroy | advmod |
| 17 | destroy | destroy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 thinking | ccomp |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 foes | nmod:poss |
| 19 | foes | foe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 destroy | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 caused | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | approach | past | the army | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | cause | past | the magician | the water | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition water=Patient | ||||
| 3 | rise | to-infinitive | the magician not said here | the water not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | think speech: other | gerund | the magician not said here | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | destroy | infinitive | water's foes | speedily property | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foe=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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