The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 20, sentence 64
Yet still the King did not send for him, so he mounted his steed and set off in the pride of his youth and strength to the palace.
Who acts: King, Prince · What happens: not send, mount, set off, pride · To what, where: steed, pride, youth
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 (King, Prince), 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 | Yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 7 send | cc |
| 2 | still | still | ADV | _ | 7 send | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 King | det |
| 4 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 send | nsubj |
| 5 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 send | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 send | advmod |
| 7 | send | send | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 him | case |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 send | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 mounted | punct |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 mounted | advmod |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 mounted | nsubj |
| 13 | mounted | mount | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 send | parataxis |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 steed | nmod:poss |
| 15 | steed | steed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 mounted | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 set | cc |
| 17 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 mounted | conj |
| 18 | off | off | ADP | _ | 17 set | compound:prt |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 pride | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 pride | det |
| 21 | pride | pride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 set | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 youth | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 youth | nmod:poss |
| 24 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 pride | nmod |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 strength | cc |
| 26 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 youth | conj |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 palace | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 palace | det |
| 29 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 set | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 send | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not send | past · do-support | the King | still | for Prince | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | mount | past | Prince | Prince's steed | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent steed=Patient | ||||
| 3 | set off | past | Prince not said here | the pride of Prince's youth and strength | to the palace | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to palace=Initial_Location | |||
| 4 | pride | Prince's youth and strength | nom pride «feeling transitive»: of=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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