The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 21, sentence 27
Then he let go, and like an arrow the swing shot into the air, with its burden of seventy fair maidens, merry and careless, full of smiles and laughter.
Who acts: maiden, swing, air · What happens: let, go, shoot, burden · To what, where: air, seventy fair maidens
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 (maiden, swing, air), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 let | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 let | nsubj |
| 3 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 let | xcomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 shot | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 shot | cc |
| 7 | like | like | ADP | _ | 9 arrow | case |
| 8 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 arrow | det |
| 9 | arrow | arrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 shot | obl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 swing | det |
| 11 | swing | swing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 shot | nsubj |
| 12 | shot | shoot | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 let | conj |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 air | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 air | det |
| 15 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 shot | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 burden | punct |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 burden | case |
| 18 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 burden | nmod:poss |
| 19 | burden | burden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 shot | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 maidens | case |
| 21 | seventy | seventy | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 maidens | nummod |
| 22 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 maidens | amod |
| 23 | maidens | maiden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 burden | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 merry | punct |
| 25 | merry | merry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 maidens | amod |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 careless | cc |
| 27 | careless | careless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 merry | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 full | punct |
| 29 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 merry | conj |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 smiles | case |
| 31 | smiles | smile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 full | obl |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 laughter | cc |
| 33 | laughter | laughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 smiles | conj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | past | maiden | then | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go | infinitive | maiden not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | shoot | past | the swing | the air | like a arrow; with air's burden of seventy fair maidens | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent into air=Destination | |||
| 4 | burden | air | seventy fair maidens | nom burden «cognition transitive»: poss=agent of=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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