The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 26, sentence 95
But there is an end to all things, and the course which each of these young men was pursuing was changed when an order from their king called upon them to return and render an account of their doings.
Who acts: end, each · What happens: be, pursue, change, call, return, render · To what, where: course, order, account, doings · 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 (end, each), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 is | cc |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 is | expl |
| 3 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 end | det |
| 5 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 is | nsubj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 things | case |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 things | det |
| 8 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 end | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 changed | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 changed | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 course | det |
| 12 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 changed | nsubj |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 pursuing | obj |
| 14 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 pursuing | nsubj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 men | case |
| 16 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 18 men | det |
| 17 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 men | amod |
| 18 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 each | nmod |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 pursuing | aux |
| 20 | pursuing | pursue | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 course | acl:relcl |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 changed | aux:pass |
| 22 | changed | change | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 is | conj |
| 23 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 29 called | advmod |
| 24 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 order | det |
| 25 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 called | nsubj:pass |
| 26 | from | from | ADP | _ | 28 king | case |
| 27 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 king | nmod:poss |
| 28 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 order | nmod |
| 29 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 changed | parataxis |
| 30 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 31 them | case |
| 31 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 called | obl |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 return | mark |
| 33 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 called | xcomp |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 render | cc |
| 35 | render | render | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 return | conj |
| 36 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 account | det |
| 37 | account | account | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 render | obj |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 doings | case |
| 39 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 doings | nmod:poss |
| 40 | doings | doing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 account | nmod |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | a end to all things | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | pursue | past · progressive | each of this young men | the course | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme | ||||
| 3 | change | past · passive | the course | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 4 | call | participle · passive | a order from things's king | upon things = thing | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | return | to-infinitive | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 6 | render | infinitive | a account of things's doings | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent account=Theme | |||||
| 7 | account | things's doings | nom account «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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