The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 21, sentence 55
Then Bhanur, the Arab steed, who stood by, found voice, and cried to his master:
Who acts: Arab steed, Bhanur · What happens: stand by, find, cry · To what, where: voice, master
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 (Arab steed, Bhanur), 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 | 16 cried | advmod |
| 2 | Bhanur | Bhanur | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 cried | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 steed | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 steed | det |
| 5 | Arab | Arab | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 steed | amod |
| 6 | steed | steed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Bhanur | appos |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 stood | punct |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 stood | nsubj |
| 9 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 steed | parataxis |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 stood | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 found | punct |
| 12 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 stood | conj |
| 13 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 found | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 cried | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 cried | cc |
| 16 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 master | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 master | nmod:poss |
| 19 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 cried | obl |
| 20 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand by | past | the Arab steed | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | find | participle | the Arab steed not said here | voice | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent voice=Topic | ||||
| 3 | cry speech: express | past | Bhanur | Bhanur's master | then | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to master=Recipient |
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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