The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 24, sentence 128
For about a week the Spanish general sailed toward his home and then he, too, turned about to go back, planning to take the Princess by force.
Who acts: Spanish general, general · What happens: sail, turn about, go back, plan, take · To what, where: home, Princess
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 (Spanish general, general), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 4 week | case |
| 2 | about | about | ADV | _ | 4 week | advmod |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 week | det |
| 4 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sailed | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 general | det |
| 6 | Spanish | Spanish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 general | amod |
| 7 | general | general | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sailed | nsubj |
| 8 | sailed | sail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | toward | toward | ADP | _ | 11 home | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 home | nmod:poss |
| 11 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sailed | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 turned | cc |
| 13 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 turned | advmod |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 turned | nsubj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 he | punct |
| 16 | too | too | ADV | _ | 18 turned | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 too | punct |
| 18 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 sailed | conj |
| 19 | about | about | ADV | _ | 18 turned | advmod |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 go | mark |
| 21 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 turned | xcomp |
| 22 | back | back | ADV | _ | 21 go | advmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 planning | punct |
| 24 | planning | plan | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 go | advcl |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 take | mark |
| 26 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 planning | xcomp |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Princess | det |
| 28 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 take | obj |
| 29 | by | by | ADP | _ | 30 force | case |
| 30 | force | force | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 take | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 sailed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sail | past | the Spanish general | general's home | week | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent toward home=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | turn about | past | general | then | about property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | go back | to-infinitive | general not said here | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | plan | gerund | general not said here | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | take not said to happen | to-infinitive | general not said here | the Princess | by force | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument princess=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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