The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 21, sentence 26
So the seventy maidens climbed into one swing, and Rajah Rasalu, standing in his shining armor, fastened the ropes to his mighty bow, and drew it up to its fullest bent.
Who acts: seventy maidens · What happens: climb, stand, shine, fasten, draw up, bend · To what, where: Rajah, one swing, shining armor, ropes, bow
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 (seventy maidens), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 5 climbed | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 maidens | det |
| 3 | seventy | seventy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 maidens | amod |
| 4 | maidens | maiden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 climbed | nsubj |
| 5 | climbed | climb | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 swing | case |
| 7 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 swing | nummod |
| 8 | swing | swing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 climbed | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Rajah | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 Rajah | cc |
| 11 | Rajah | Rajah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 climbed | obl |
| 12 | Rasalu | Rasalu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Rajah | flat |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 standing | punct |
| 14 | standing | stand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 climbed | advcl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 armor | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 armor | nmod:poss |
| 17 | shining | shine | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 armor | amod |
| 18 | armor | armor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 standing | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 fastened | punct |
| 20 | fastened | fasten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 climbed | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 ropes | det |
| 22 | ropes | rope | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 fastened | obj |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 bow | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 bow | nmod:poss |
| 25 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 bow | amod |
| 26 | bow | bow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 fastened | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 drew | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 drew | cc |
| 29 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 climbed | conj |
| 30 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 drew | obj |
| 31 | up | up | ADP | _ | 29 drew | compound:prt |
| 32 | to | to | ADP | _ | 34 fullest | case |
| 33 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 fullest | nmod:poss |
| 34 | fullest | full | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 29 drew | advcl |
| 35 | bent | bend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 34 fullest | xcomp |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 climbed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | climb | past | the seventy maidens | Rajah | one swing | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into swing=Destination | |||
| 2 | stand | gerund | the seventy maidens not said here | maiden's shining armor | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in armor=Location | ||||
| 3 | shine | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | fasten | past | the seventy maidens not said here | the ropes | to maiden's mighty bow | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent rope=Patient to bow=Co-Patient | |||
| 5 | draw up | past | the seventy maidens not said here | bow | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 6 | bend | participle | the seventy maidens not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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