The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 20, sentence 79
He took with him his horse Bhanur and his parrot, both of whom had lived with him since he was born.
Who acts: King, both · What happens: take, live, bear · To what, where: horse, King
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, both), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 took | nsubj |
| 2 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 4 him | case |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 took | obl |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 horse | nmod:poss |
| 6 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 took | obj |
| 7 | Bhanur | Bhanur | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 horse | appos |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 parrot | cc |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 parrot | nmod:poss |
| 10 | parrot | parrot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 horse | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 lived | punct |
| 12 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 lived | nsubj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 whom | case |
| 14 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 lived | obl |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 lived | aux |
| 16 | lived | live | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 took | conj |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 him | case |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 lived | obl |
| 19 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 22 born | mark |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 born | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 born | aux:pass |
| 22 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 lived | advcl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | King | King's horse and King's parrot | with man | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument horse=Destination | |||
| 2 | live | past · perfect | both | with King; whom obl | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with he=Location | ||||
| 3 | bear | past · passive | King | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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