The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 24, sentence 89
As they came in sight of the Sultan’s city, they saw the Spanish fleet in the harbor, and one of his brothers advised Bantugan not to enter until the Spaniards left.
Who acts: flags, one, Spaniards · What happens: come, see, advise, not enter, leave, sight · To what, where: sight, Spanish fleet, harbor, Bantugan, city · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (flags, one, Spaniards), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 came | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 saw | advcl |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 sight | case |
| 5 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 city | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Sultan | det |
| 8 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 city | nmod:poss |
| 9 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 8 Sultan | case |
| 10 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sight | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 saw | nsubj |
| 13 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 fleet | det |
| 15 | Spanish | Spanish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 fleet | amod |
| 16 | fleet | fleet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 saw | obj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 harbor | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 harbor | det |
| 19 | harbor | harbor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 fleet | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 advised | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 advised | cc |
| 22 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 26 advised | nsubj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 brothers | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 25 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 one | nmod |
| 26 | advised | advise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 saw | conj |
| 27 | Bantugan | Bantugan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 advised | obj |
| 28 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 30 enter | advmod |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 enter | mark |
| 30 | enter | enter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 advised | ccomp |
| 31 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 34 left | mark |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 Spaniards | det |
| 33 | Spaniards | Spaniard | PROPN | Number=Plur | 34 left | nsubj |
| 34 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 enter | advcl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | flags = flag | sight of the Sultan's city | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sight=Location | ||||
| 2 | see | past | flags = flag | the Spanish fleet | the harbor | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fleet=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | advise speech: other | past | one of Sultan's brothers | Bantugan | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP how S_INF»: agent=Agent bantugan=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | not enter not said to happen | to-infinitive | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | leave | past | the Spaniards | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | sight | the Sultan's city | nom sight «cognition 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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