The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 24, sentence 99
As the brother talked with one of the sisters of the Princess they moved toward the window, and looking down they saw Bantugan’s ships entering the harbor.
Who acts: Spaniards, ships · What happens: talk, move, look down, see, enter · To what, where: Princess, window, ships, harbor
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 (Spaniards, ships), 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 | ADP | _ | 3 brother | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 brother | det |
| 3 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 talked | obl |
| 4 | talked | talk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 one | case |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 talked | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 sisters | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 sisters | det |
| 9 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 one | nmod |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Princess | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Princess | det |
| 12 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sisters | nmod |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 moved | nsubj |
| 14 | moved | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 Princess | acl:relcl |
| 15 | toward | toward | ADP | _ | 17 window | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 window | det |
| 17 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 moved | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 saw | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 saw | cc |
| 20 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 saw | advcl |
| 21 | down | down | ADP | _ | 20 looking | compound:prt |
| 22 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 saw | nsubj |
| 23 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 talked | conj |
| 24 | Bantugan | Bantugan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 ships | nmod:poss |
| 25 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 24 Bantugan | case |
| 26 | ships | ship | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 saw | obj |
| 27 | entering | enter | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 26 ships | acl |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 harbor | det |
| 29 | harbor | harbor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 entering | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 talked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | talk | past | as the brother; with one of the sisters of the Princess | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with one=Co-Agent | |||||
| 2 | move | past | Spaniards = spaniard | the Princess not said here | the window | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent princess=Theme toward window=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | look down | gerund | Spaniards = spaniard not said here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | see | past | Spaniards = spaniard | Bantugan's ships | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ship=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | enter | gerund | Bantugan's ships not said here | the harbor | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme harbor=Destination |
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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