The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 24, sentence 118
So they both landed their troops and their cannon, and a great fight took place, and soon the ground was covered with dead bodies.
Who acts: Spaniards, great fight · What happens: land, take, cover · To what, where: troops, place, ground
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Spaniards, great fight), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 landed | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 landed | nsubj |
| 3 | both | both | ADV | _ | 4 landed | advmod |
| 4 | landed | land | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 troops | nmod:poss |
| 6 | troops | troops | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 4 landed | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 cannon | cc |
| 8 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 cannon | nmod:poss |
| 9 | cannon | cannon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 troops | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 took | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 took | cc |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 fight | det |
| 13 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 fight | amod |
| 14 | fight | fight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 took | nsubj |
| 15 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 landed | conj |
| 16 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 took | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 covered | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 covered | cc |
| 19 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 23 covered | advmod |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 ground | det |
| 21 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 covered | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 covered | aux:pass |
| 23 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 took | conj |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 bodies | case |
| 25 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 bodies | amod |
| 26 | bodies | body | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 covered | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 landed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | land | past | Spaniards = spaniard | Spaniards's troops and Spaniards's cannon | both property | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V ADVP»: agent=Theme troops=Destination | |||
| 2 | take | past | a great fight | place | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme | ||||
| 3 | cover | past · passive | the ground | with dead bodies; soon property | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with body=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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