The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 21, sentence 61

Now, when the slaves came to lead the faithful steed away, Rasalu could not refrain from tears, thinking over the long years during which Bhanur, the Arab steed, had been his companion.

Who acts: slaves, Rasalu, Bhanur · What happens: come, lead, not refrain, think, be · To what, where: faithful steed, tears, companion

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 (slaves, Rasalu, 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 came	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Now	punct
3	when	when	SCONJ	_	6 came	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 slaves	det
5	slaves	slave	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 came	nsubj
6	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 lead	mark
8	lead	lead	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 came	xcomp
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 steed	det
10	faithful	faithful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 steed	amod
11	steed	steed	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lead	obj
12	away	away	ADV	_	8 lead	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 refrain	punct
14	Rasalu	Rasalu	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 refrain	nsubj
15	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 refrain	aux
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 refrain	advmod
17	refrain	refrain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 lead	conj
18	from	from	ADP	_	19 tears	case
19	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 refrain	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 thinking	punct
21	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 refrain	advcl
22	over	over	ADP	_	25 years	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 years	det
24	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 years	amod
25	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 thinking	obl
26	during	during	ADP	_	27 which	case
27	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	37 companion	obl
28	Bhanur	Bhanur	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 companion	nsubj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 steed	punct
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 steed	det
31	Arab	Arab	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 steed	amod
32	steed	steed	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 Bhanur	appos
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 Bhanur	punct
34	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 companion	aux
35	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	37 companion	cop
36	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 companion	nmod:poss
37	companion	companion	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 years	parataxis
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	the slaves			now		tree rules
2	lead	to-infinitive	the slaves not said here	the faithful steed			away property	vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent steed=Theme
3	not refrain	could	Rasalu		tears			vn refrain-69 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent from tear=Eventuality
4	think speech: other	gerund	Rasalu not said here			year		vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is a	past · perfect	Bhanur	Bhanur's companion		during the long years		tree rules

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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🌲 The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 21, sentence 61

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The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 21, sentence 61