The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 25, sentence 5
The fighting was fast and furious, but soon the great warship of Bantugan filled with water until at last it sank, drawing with it hundreds of the Spanish ships.
Who acts: fighting, great warship, warship · What happens: be, fill, sink, draw · To what, where: last, hundreds
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 (fighting, great warship, warship), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 fighting | det |
| 2 | fighting | fighting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fast | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 fast | cop |
| 4 | fast | fast | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 furious | cc |
| 6 | furious | furious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 fast | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 filled | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 filled | cc |
| 9 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 filled | advmod |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 warship | det |
| 11 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 warship | amod |
| 12 | warship | warship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 filled | nsubj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Bantugan | case |
| 14 | Bantugan | Bantugan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 warship | nmod |
| 15 | filled | fill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 fast | conj |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 water | case |
| 17 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 filled | obl |
| 18 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 22 sank | mark |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 last | case |
| 20 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 sank | obl |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 sank | nsubj |
| 22 | sank | sink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 filled | advcl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 drawing | punct |
| 24 | drawing | draw | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 sank | advcl |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 it | case |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 drawing | obl |
| 27 | hundreds | hundred | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 drawing | obj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 ships | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 ships | det |
| 30 | Spanish | Spanish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 ships | amod |
| 31 | ships | ship | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 hundreds | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 fast | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the fighting | fast property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | the fighting not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | fill | past | the great warship of Bantugan | with water; soon property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with water=Instrument | ||||
| 4 | sink | past | warship | last | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 5 | draw | gerund | warship not said here | hundreds of the Spanish ships | with warship | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hundred=Theme |
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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