The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 25, sentence 11
When the wife of Bantugan saw that her husband was no more and that his warship had been destroyed, she gathered together the remaining warriors and set forth herself to avenge him.
Who acts: wife, husband · What happens: see, not be, destroy, gather, set, avenge · To what, where: warship, remaining warriors, wife, Bantugan
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, husband), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 saw | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 wife | det |
| 3 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 saw | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Bantugan | case |
| 5 | Bantugan | Bantugan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 wife | nmod |
| 6 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 more | mark |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 husband | nmod:poss |
| 9 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 more | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 more | cop |
| 11 | no | no | ADV | _ | 12 more | advmod |
| 12 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 saw | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 gathered | cc |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 destroyed | mark |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 warship | nmod:poss |
| 16 | warship | warship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 destroyed | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 destroyed | aux |
| 18 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 19 destroyed | aux:pass |
| 19 | destroyed | destroy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 gathered | advcl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 destroyed | punct |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 gathered | nsubj |
| 22 | gathered | gather | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 saw | conj |
| 23 | together | together | ADV | _ | 22 gathered | advmod |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 warriors | det |
| 25 | remaining | remaining | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 warriors | amod |
| 26 | warriors | warrior | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 gathered | obj |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 set | cc |
| 28 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 saw | conj |
| 29 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 28 set | advmod |
| 30 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 28 set | obj |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 avenge | mark |
| 32 | avenge | avenge | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 set | advcl |
| 33 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 avenge | obj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the wife of Bantugan | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | not is | past | wife's husband | more property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | destroy | past · perfect · passive | Bantugan's warship | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 4 | gather | past | wife | the remaining warriors | together property | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent warrior=Theme | |||
| 5 | set | infinitive | the wife of Bantugan not said here | wife | forth property | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient herself=Result | |||
| 6 | avenge | to-infinitive | the wife of Bantugan not said here | Bantugan | tree rules |
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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