The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 26, sentence 36
They dared not stop him, knowing that he had the power to turn the four brooks into rivers again.
Who acts: pestle, Pei, power · What happens: stop, know, have, turn · To what, where: Pei, power, four brooks, rivers · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (pestle, Pei, power), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 stop | nsubj |
| 2 | dared | dare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 stop | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 2 dared | advmod |
| 4 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 stop | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 knowing | punct |
| 7 | knowing | know | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 stop | advcl |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 had | mark |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 had | nsubj |
| 10 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 knowing | ccomp |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 power | det |
| 12 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 had | obj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 turn | mark |
| 14 | turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 had | xcomp |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 brooks | det |
| 16 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 brooks | nummod |
| 17 | brooks | brook | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 turn | obj |
| 18 | into | into | ADP | _ | 19 rivers | case |
| 19 | rivers | river | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 turn | obl |
| 20 | again | again | ADV | _ | 14 turn | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 stop | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | past | pestle | Pei | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality he=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | know | gerund | pestle not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | have | past | Pei | the power | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | turn | to-infinitive | the power not said here | the four brooks | rivers | again | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent brook=Theme into river=Trajectory |
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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