The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 24, sentence 81
A great expedition was prepared, and he with all his brothers embarked on his large warship which was followed by ten thousand other ships.
Who acts: great expedition, general · What happens: be, embark, follow · To what, where: large warship
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 (great expedition, 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 expedition | det |
| 2 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 expedition | amod |
| 3 | expedition | expedition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 prepared | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 prepared | cop |
| 5 | prepared | prepared | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 embarked | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 embarked | cc |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 embarked | nsubj |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 brothers | case |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 brothers | det:predet |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 12 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 he | nmod |
| 13 | embarked | embark | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 prepared | conj |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 warship | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 warship | nmod:poss |
| 16 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 warship | amod |
| 17 | warship | warship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 embarked | obl |
| 18 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 followed | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 followed | aux:pass |
| 20 | followed | follow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 warship | acl:relcl |
| 21 | by | by | ADP | _ | 25 ships | case |
| 22 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 thousand | compound |
| 23 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 ships | nummod |
| 24 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 ships | amod |
| 25 | ships | ship | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 followed | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 prepared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | a great expedition | prepared property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | embark | past | general | general's large warship | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | follow | past · passive | general's large warship | by thousand other ships | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme by ship=Trajectory |
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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