The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 26, sentence 103
The youth, whose treasure had been taken from him, drew near to the court.
Who acts: youth · What happens: take, draw, treasure · To what, where: youth, court
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youth), 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 youth | det |
| 2 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 treasure | punct |
| 4 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 5 treasure | nmod:poss |
| 5 | treasure | treasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 youth | conj |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 taken | aux |
| 7 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 taken | aux:pass |
| 8 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 him | case |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 taken | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 drew | punct |
| 12 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 taken | conj |
| 13 | near | near | ADV | _ | 12 drew | advmod |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 court | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 court | det |
| 16 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 drew | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 taken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past · perfect · passive | the youth and the youth and the youth's treasure's treasure | from advice | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: subject=Theme from he=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | draw | past | the court | near property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to court=Destination | ||||
| 3 | treasure | the youth and the youth and treasure's treasure | nom treasure «possession 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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