The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 21, sentence 28
But as it swung back again, Rasalu, standing there in his shining armor, drew his sharp sword and severed the ropes.
Who acts: burden · What happens: swing back, stand, shine, draw, sever · To what, where: Rasalu, shining armor, sharp sword, ropes
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 (burden), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 drew | cc |
| 2 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 swung | mark |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 swung | nsubj |
| 4 | swung | swing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 drew | advcl |
| 5 | back | back | ADV | _ | 4 swung | advmod |
| 6 | again | again | ADV | _ | 4 swung | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Rasalu | punct |
| 8 | Rasalu | Rasalu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 swung | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 standing | punct |
| 10 | standing | stand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 swung | advcl |
| 11 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 standing | advmod |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 armor | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 armor | nmod:poss |
| 14 | shining | shine | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 armor | amod |
| 15 | armor | armor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 standing | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 drew | punct |
| 17 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 sword | nmod:poss |
| 19 | sharp | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 sword | amod |
| 20 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 drew | obj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 severed | cc |
| 22 | severed | sever | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 drew | conj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 ropes | det |
| 24 | ropes | rope | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 severed | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 drew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swing back | past | burden | Rasalu | again | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||
| 2 | stand | gerund | burden not said here | maiden's shining armor; there | 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 | draw | past | maiden's sharp sword | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Theme | |||||
| 5 | sever | past | the ropes | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rope=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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