The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 24, sentence 88
After three months had passed Bantugan prepared a great expedition to go in search of his son, and the great warship was decorated with flags of gold.
Who acts: Bantugan · What happens: pass, prepare, go, decorate, search · To what, where: great expedition, search, great warship, son
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), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 months | case |
| 2 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 months | nummod |
| 3 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 passed | obl |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 passed | aux |
| 5 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | Bantugan | Bantugan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 prepared | nsubj |
| 7 | prepared | prepare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 passed | ccomp |
| 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 prepared | obj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 go | mark |
| 12 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 expedition | acl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 search | case |
| 14 | search | search | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 go | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 son | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 son | nmod:poss |
| 17 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 search | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 decorated | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 decorated | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 warship | det |
| 21 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 warship | amod |
| 22 | warship | warship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 decorated | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 decorated | aux:pass |
| 24 | decorated | decorate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 passed | conj |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 flags | case |
| 26 | flags | flag | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 decorated | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 gold | case |
| 28 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 flags | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | past · perfect | month | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | prepare | past | Bantugan | a great expedition | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent expedition=Patient | ||||
| 3 | go | to-infinitive | Bantugan not said here | a great expedition not said here | search of BANTUGAN's son | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in search=Location | |||
| 4 | decorate | past · passive | the great warship | with flags of gold | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with flag=Theme | ||||
| 5 | search | BANTUGAN's son | nom search «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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