The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 21, sentence 95
Now, as he left the palace, carrying with him the newborn babe and the mango branch, he met a band of prisoners, and they called out to him:
Who acts: Sarkap, prisoners · What happens: leave, carry, meet, call out · To what, where: palace, newborn babe, band, Sarkap
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 (Sarkap, prisoners), 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 | 5 left | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Now | punct |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 left | mark |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 left | nsubj |
| 5 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 palace | det |
| 7 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 left | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 carrying | punct |
| 9 | carrying | carry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 left | advcl |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 him | case |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 carrying | obl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 babe | det |
| 13 | newborn | newborn | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 babe | amod |
| 14 | babe | babe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 carrying | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 branch | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 branch | det |
| 17 | mango | mango | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 branch | compound |
| 18 | branch | branch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 babe | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 met | punct |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 met | nsubj |
| 21 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 left | conj |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 band | det |
| 23 | band | band | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 met | obj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 prisoners | case |
| 25 | prisoners | prisoner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 band | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 called | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 called | cc |
| 28 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 called | nsubj |
| 29 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 left | conj |
| 30 | out | out | ADP | _ | 29 called | compound:prt |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 him | case |
| 32 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 called | obl |
| 33 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past | Sarkap | the palace | now | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent palace=Theme | |||
| 2 | carry | gerund | Sarkap not said here | the newborn babe and the mango branch | with Sarkap | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent babe=Theme | |||
| 3 | meet | past | Sarkap | a band of prisoners | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent band=Co-Agent | ||||
| 4 | call out speech: assert | past | prisoners = prisoner | Sarkap | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to he=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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