The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 25, sentence 9
A Moro sailboat passing this island is always scanned by Bantugan’s watchers, and if it contains women such as he admires, they are snatched from their seats and carried deep into the heart of the mountain.
Who acts: Moro sailboat, watchers, sailboat, Bantugan · What happens: pass, scan, contain, admire, snatch, carry · To what, where: island, Moro sailboat, women, seats, heart
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 (Moro sailboat, watchers, sailboat, 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 sailboat | det |
| 2 | Moro | Moro | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 sailboat | compound |
| 3 | sailboat | sailboat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 scanned | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | passing | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 sailboat | acl |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 island | det |
| 6 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 passing | obj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 scanned | aux:pass |
| 8 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 9 scanned | advmod |
| 9 | scanned | scan | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 watchers | case |
| 11 | Bantugan | Bantugan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 watchers | nmod:poss |
| 12 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 11 Bantugan | case |
| 13 | watchers | watcher | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 scanned | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 snatched | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 snatched | cc |
| 16 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 18 contains | mark |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 contains | nsubj |
| 18 | contains | contain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 snatched | advcl |
| 19 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 contains | obj |
| 20 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=SCONJ | 23 admires | mark |
| 21 | as | as | ADP | _ | 20 such | fixed |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 admires | nsubj |
| 23 | admires | admire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 women | acl:relcl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 contains | punct |
| 25 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 snatched | nsubj |
| 26 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 snatched | aux:pass |
| 27 | snatched | snatch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 scanned | conj |
| 28 | from | from | ADP | _ | 30 seats | case |
| 29 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 seats | nmod:poss |
| 30 | seats | seat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 snatched | obl |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 carried | cc |
| 32 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 scanned | conj |
| 33 | deep | deep | ADV | _ | 32 carried | advmod |
| 34 | into | into | ADP | _ | 36 heart | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 heart | det |
| 36 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 carried | obl |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 mountain | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 mountain | det |
| 39 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 heart | nmod |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 scanned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | gerund | a Moro sailboat not said here | this island | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme island=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | scan | present · passive | Bantugan's watchers | a Moro sailboat | always property | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | |||
| 3 | contain a condition, not said to happen | present | sailboat | women | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot woman=Theme | ||||
| 4 | admire | present | Bantugan | women not said here | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer woman=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | snatch | present · passive | women = woman | women's seats | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme from seat=Source | ||||
| 6 | carry | past | Bantugan's watchers not said here | the heart of the mountain | deep property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=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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