The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 20, sentence 8
When Korkwi saw that Shiku was his superior in wisdom, he became furious with rage, and charged the enemy headlong.
Who acts: Korkwi, Shiku · What happens: see, be, become, charge · To what, where: wisdom, enemy · 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 (Korkwi, Shiku), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 saw | advmod |
| 2 | Korkwi | Korkwi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 became | advcl |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 superior | mark |
| 5 | Shiku | Shiku | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 superior | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 superior | cop |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 superior | nmod:poss |
| 8 | superior | superior | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 saw | ccomp |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 wisdom | case |
| 10 | wisdom | wisdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 superior | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 saw | punct |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 became | nsubj |
| 13 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | furious | furious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 became | xcomp |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 rage | case |
| 16 | rage | rage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 furious | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 charged | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 charged | cc |
| 19 | charged | charge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 became | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 enemy | det |
| 21 | enemy | enemy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 charged | obj |
| 22 | headlong | headlong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 charged | xcomp |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 became | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | Korkwi | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is | past | Shiku | wisdom | Korkwi nmod:poss; superior property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | become | past | Korkwi | furious property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | charge | past | Korkwi not said here | the enemy | headlong property | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location enemy=Theme |
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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