The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 25, sentence 2
“My Brothers, the Spanish dogs have come to destroy the land.
Who acts: Spanish dogs · What happens: come, destroy · To what, where: Brothers, land
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 (Spanish dogs), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 Brothers | punct |
| 2 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 Brothers | nmod:poss |
| 3 | Brothers | Brother | PROPN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 come | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 dogs | det |
| 6 | Spanish | Spanish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 dogs | amod |
| 7 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 come | nsubj |
| 8 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 come | aux |
| 9 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 Brothers | acl:relcl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 destroy | mark |
| 11 | destroy | destroy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 come | xcomp |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 land | det |
| 13 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 destroy | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 Brothers | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come in a quote | present · perfect | the Spanish dogs | My Brothers not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | destroy in a quote | to-infinitive | the Spanish dogs not said here | the land | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent land=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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