The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 26, sentence 109
Many of the courtiers went out to greet him, and accompanied him to the king’s presence.
Who acts: Many courtiers · What happens: go out, greet, accompany · To what, where: youth, presence
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 (Many courtiers), 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 courtiers | amod |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 courtiers | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 courtiers | det |
| 4 | courtiers | courtier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 went | nsubj |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | out | out | ADV | _ | 5 went | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 greet | mark |
| 8 | greet | greet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 went | advcl |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 greet | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 accompanied | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 accompanied | cc |
| 12 | accompanied | accompany | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 went | conj |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 accompanied | obj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 presence | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 king | det |
| 16 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 presence | nmod:poss |
| 17 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 16 king | case |
| 18 | presence | presence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 accompanied | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go out | past | the Many courtiers | out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | greet speech: greet | to-infinitive | the Many courtiers not said here | youth | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 3 | accompany | past | the Many courtiers not said here | youth | the king's presence | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to presence=Destination |
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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