The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 20, sentence 63
But when Prince Rasalu saw the women returning to the well with pitchers of iron and brass, he laughed to himself, and drew his mighty bow till the sharp-pointed arrows pierced the metal vessels as though they had been clay.
Who acts: Prince, women, pointed arrows · What happens: see, return, laugh, draw, pierce, be · To what, where: women, Prince, mighty bow, metal vessels, clay
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 (Prince, women, pointed arrows), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 laughed | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 saw | advmod |
| 3 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 saw | nsubj |
| 4 | Rasalu | Rasalu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Prince | flat |
| 5 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 laughed | advcl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 women | det |
| 7 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 saw | obj |
| 8 | returning | return | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 saw | xcomp |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 well | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 well | det |
| 11 | well | well | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 returning | obl |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 pitchers | case |
| 13 | pitchers | pitcher | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 returning | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 iron | case |
| 15 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 pitchers | nmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 brass | cc |
| 17 | brass | brass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 iron | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 saw | punct |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 laughed | nsubj |
| 20 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 himself | case |
| 22 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 20 laughed | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 drew | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 drew | cc |
| 25 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 laughed | conj |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 bow | nmod:poss |
| 27 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 bow | amod |
| 28 | bow | bow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 drew | obj |
| 29 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 35 pierced | mark |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 arrows | det |
| 31 | sharp | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 pointed | amod |
| 32 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 31 sharp | punct |
| 33 | pointed | pointed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 arrows | amod |
| 34 | arrows | arrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 pierced | nsubj |
| 35 | pierced | pierce | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 drew | advcl |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 vessels | det |
| 37 | metal | metal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 vessels | compound |
| 38 | vessels | vessel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 pierced | obj |
| 39 | as | as | ADV | _ | 44 clay | advmod |
| 40 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 44 clay | mark |
| 41 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 clay | nsubj |
| 42 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 44 clay | aux |
| 43 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 44 clay | cop |
| 44 | clay | clay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 pierced | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 laughed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | Prince | the women | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | return | gerund | the women not said here | to the well result; with pitchers of iron and brass | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to well=Result | ||||
| 3 | laugh | past | Prince | Prince | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | draw | past | Prince not said here | Prince's mighty bow | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bow=Theme | ||||
| 5 | pierce | past | the pointed arrows | the metal vessels | vn poke-19-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vessel=Patient | ||||
| 6 | is a | past · perfect | women = woman | clay | tree rules |
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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