The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 24, sentence 97
So at his command the anchors were lifted, and they sailed into the harbor where the Spanish fleet lay.
Who acts: anchors, Spanish fleet, son · What happens: lift, sail, lay, command · To what, where: anchors, command, harbor · 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 (anchors, Spanish fleet, son), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 8 lifted | advmod |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 command | case |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 command | nmod:poss |
| 4 | command | command | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lifted | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 anchors | det |
| 6 | anchors | anchor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 lifted | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 lifted | aux:pass |
| 8 | lifted | lift | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 sailed | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 sailed | cc |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 sailed | nsubj |
| 12 | sailed | sail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 lifted | conj |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 harbor | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 harbor | det |
| 15 | harbor | harbor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sailed | obl |
| 16 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 20 lay | advmod |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 fleet | det |
| 18 | Spanish | Spanish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 fleet | amod |
| 19 | fleet | fleet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 lay | nsubj |
| 20 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 harbor | acl:relcl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 lifted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lift | past · passive | the anchors | son's command | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme at command=Destination | ||||
| 2 | sail | past | anchors = anchor | the harbor | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent into harbor=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | lay | present | the Spanish fleet | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | command | son | nom command «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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