The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 24, sentence 127
Bantugan soon returned, however, and married the Princess, and on the way back to his home they found his son and took him with them.
Who acts: Bantugan, Spaniards · What happens: return, marry, find, take · To what, where: Princess, son, way, BANTUGAN
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 (Bantugan, Spaniards), 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 | Bantugan | Bantugan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 returned | nsubj |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 returned | advmod |
| 3 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 however | punct |
| 5 | however | however | ADV | _ | 3 returned | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 married | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 married | cc |
| 8 | married | marry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 returned | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Princess | det |
| 10 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 married | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 found | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 found | cc |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 way | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 way | det |
| 15 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 found | obl |
| 16 | back | back | ADV | _ | 15 way | advmod |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 home | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 home | nmod:poss |
| 19 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 back | obl |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 found | nsubj |
| 21 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 returned | conj |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 son | nmod:poss |
| 23 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 found | obj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 took | cc |
| 25 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 found | conj |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 took | obj |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 them | case |
| 28 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 took | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past | Bantugan | however, soon property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | marry | past | Bantugan not said here | the Princess | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Patient | ||||
| 3 | find | past | Spaniards = spaniard | BANTUGAN's son | the way | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Topic | |||
| 4 | take | past | Spaniards = spaniard not said here | BANTUGAN | with Spaniards = spaniard | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination |
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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