The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 26, sentence 71
So they bade their sovereign good-bye, embarked on a ship and set sail, without any definite plan as to what country they should visit.
Who acts: summons · What happens: bade, embark, visit · To what, where: sovereign, ship, country
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 (summons), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 bade | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 bade | nsubj |
| 3 | bade | bade | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 sovereign | nmod:poss |
| 5 | sovereign | sovereign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bade | obj |
| 6 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 embarked | punct |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 bye | punct |
| 8 | bye | bye | INTJ | _ | 6 good | flat |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 embarked | punct |
| 10 | embarked | embark | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 bade | conj |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 ship | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 ship | det |
| 13 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 embarked | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 sail | cc |
| 15 | set | set | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 sail | amod |
| 16 | sail | sail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 ship | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 plan | punct |
| 18 | without | without | ADP | _ | 21 plan | case |
| 19 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 21 plan | det |
| 20 | definite | definite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 plan | amod |
| 21 | plan | plan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 embarked | obl |
| 22 | as | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 24 what | case |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 as | fixed |
| 24 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 plan | nmod |
| 25 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 what | acl:relcl |
| 26 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 visit | nsubj |
| 27 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 visit | aux |
| 28 | visit | visit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 country | acl:relcl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 bade | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bade | past | summons = summon | summons's sovereign | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | embark | participle | summons = summon not said here | a ship and set sail | without any definite plan | tree rules | |||
| 3 | visit | should | summons = summon | country not said here | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent country=Co-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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