The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 20, sentence 9
Oku rode to meet him, and soon the two were engaged in deadly combat.
Who acts: Oku · What happens: ride, meet, engage · To what, where: Oku, two, deadly combat
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 (Oku), 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 | Oku | Oku | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 rode | nsubj |
| 2 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 meet | mark |
| 4 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 rode | xcomp |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 meet | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 engaged | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 engaged | cc |
| 8 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 two | advmod |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 two | det |
| 10 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 engaged | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 engaged | aux:pass |
| 12 | engaged | engage | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 rode | conj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 combat | case |
| 14 | deadly | deadly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 combat | amod |
| 15 | combat | combat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 engaged | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 rode | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride | past | Oku | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | meet | to-infinitive | Oku not said here | Oku | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | engage | past · passive | the two | in deadly combat goal | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: subject=Theme in combat=Goal |
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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