The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 24, sentence 131
And then he sailed away to prepare a great expedition with which he should utterly destroy Bantugan and his country as well.
Who acts: wrath · What happens: sail away, prepare, destroy · To what, where: great expedition, 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 (wrath), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 sailed | cc |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 sailed | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 sailed | nsubj |
| 4 | sailed | sail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | away | away | ADV | _ | 4 sailed | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 prepare | mark |
| 7 | prepare | prepare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 sailed | advcl |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 expedition | det |
| 9 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 expedition | amod |
| 10 | expedition | expedition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 prepare | obj |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 which | case |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 destroy | obl |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 destroy | nsubj |
| 14 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 destroy | aux |
| 15 | utterly | utterly | ADV | _ | 16 destroy | advmod |
| 16 | destroy | destroy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 expedition | acl:relcl |
| 17 | Bantugan | Bantugan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 destroy | obj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 country | cc |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 country | nmod:poss |
| 20 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 Bantugan | conj |
| 21 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=ADV | 16 destroy | advmod |
| 22 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 21 as | fixed |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sailed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sail away | past | wrath | then | away property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | prepare | to-infinitive | wrath not said here | a great expedition | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent expedition=Patient | ||||
| 3 | destroy | should | wrath | Bantugan and wrath's country | with a great expedition; utterly property | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent bantugan=Patient with which=Instrument |
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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