The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 21, sentence 118
It was their duty now to see what could be done to help their comrade, and at length they hit upon a plan to rescue him.
Who acts: capture, FRIENDS · What happens: be, see, do, help, hit, rescue · To what, where: duty, comrade, goat · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (capture, FRIENDS), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 duty | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 duty | cop |
| 3 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 duty | nmod:poss |
| 4 | duty | duty | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 see | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 see | mark |
| 7 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 duty | acl:relcl |
| 8 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 11 done | obj |
| 9 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 done | aux |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 done | aux:pass |
| 11 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 see | ccomp |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 help | mark |
| 13 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 done | advcl |
| 14 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 comrade | nmod:poss |
| 15 | comrade | comrade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 help | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 hit | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 hit | cc |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 length | case |
| 19 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 hit | obl |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 hit | nsubj |
| 21 | hit | hit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 duty | parataxis |
| 22 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 24 plan | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 plan | det |
| 24 | plan | plan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 hit | obl |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 rescue | mark |
| 26 | rescue | rescue | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 hit | advcl |
| 27 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 rescue | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 duty | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | capture | FRIENDS's duty | FRIENDS = friend nmod:poss | tree rules | |||
| 2 | see | to-infinitive | now | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | do | could · passive | what obj | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: what=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | help | to-infinitive | FRIENDS's comrade | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent comrade=Beneficiary | |||||
| 5 | hit | past | FRIENDS = friend | upon a plan; at length | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at length=Patient | ||||
| 6 | rescue | to-infinitive | FRIENDS = friend not said here | goat | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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