The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 25, sentence 4

So the great warship was again prepared, and all the soldiers of Islam embarked, and then with Bantugan standing at the bow they sailed forth to meet their fate.

Who acts: great warship, soldiers, Bantugan · What happens: be, embark, stand, sail, meet, fate · To what, where: bow, fate

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 (great warship, soldiers, Bantugan), 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	_	7 prepared	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 warship	det
3	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 warship	amod
4	warship	warship	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 prepared	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 prepared	cop
6	again	again	ADV	_	7 prepared	advmod
7	prepared	prepared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 embarked	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 embarked	cc
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 soldiers	det:predet
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 soldiers	det
12	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 embarked	nsubj
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 Islam	case
14	Islam	Islam	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 soldiers	nmod
15	embarked	embark	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 prepared	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 standing	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 standing	cc
18	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	21 standing	advmod
19	with	with	SCONJ	_	21 standing	mark
20	Bantugan	Bantugan	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 standing	nsubj
21	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 embarked	advcl
22	at	at	ADP	_	24 bow	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 bow	det
24	bow	bow	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 standing	obl
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 sailed	nsubj
26	sailed	sail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 bow	acl:relcl
27	forth	forth	ADV	_	26 sailed	advmod
28	to	to	PART	_	29 meet	mark
29	meet	meet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 sailed	advcl
30	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 fate	nmod:poss
31	fate	fate	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 meet	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 prepared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the great warship			again	prepared property	tree rules
2	embark	past	all soldiers of Islam					tree rules
3	stand	gerund	Bantugan		the bow	then		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at bow=Location
4	sail	past	soldiers = soldier	the bow not said here			forth property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme bow=Trajectory
5	meet	to-infinitive	soldiers = soldier not said here	soldiers's fate				vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fate=Co-Agent
6	fate		soldiers = soldier					nom fate «event 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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🌲 The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 25, sentence 4

The tree

Pragmatics

The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 25, sentence 4