The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 24, sentence 42
Balatama was young but he was strong and brave, and when the arms of his father were given him to wear on the long journey his heart swelled with pride.
Who acts: Balatama, heart · What happens: be, give, wear, swell · To what, where: arms, long journey
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 (Balatama, heart), 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 | Balatama | Balatama | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 young | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 young | cop |
| 3 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 strong | cc |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 strong | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 strong | cop |
| 7 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 young | conj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 brave | cc |
| 9 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 strong | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 given | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 given | cc |
| 12 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 19 given | mark |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 arms | det |
| 14 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 given | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 father | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 father | nmod:poss |
| 17 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 arms | nmod |
| 18 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 given | aux:pass |
| 19 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 young | parataxis |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 given | obj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 wear | mark |
| 22 | wear | wear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 given | advcl |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 journey | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 journey | det |
| 25 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 journey | amod |
| 26 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 wear | obl |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 heart | nmod:poss |
| 28 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 swelled | nsubj |
| 29 | swelled | swell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 journey | acl:relcl |
| 30 | with | with | ADP | _ | 31 pride | case |
| 31 | pride | pride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 swelled | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 young | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Balatama | young property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | Balatama | strong property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | Balatama not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | give | past · passive | the arms of Balatama's father | Balatama obj | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient he=Theme | ||||
| 5 | wear | to-infinitive | the long journey | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | swell | past | Balatama's heart | the long journey not said here | with pride | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient journey=Extent |
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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