The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 27, sentence 20
But Rasalu fitted a magic arrow to his bow, and the fakir, knowing its power, immediately vanished.
Who acts: Rasalu · What happens: fit, know, vanish · To what, where: magic arrow, bow, power
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rasalu), 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 fitted | cc |
| 2 | Rasalu | Rasalu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 fitted | nsubj |
| 3 | fitted | fit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 arrow | det |
| 5 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 arrow | amod |
| 6 | arrow | arrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fitted | obj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 bow | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 bow | nmod:poss |
| 9 | bow | bow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fitted | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 fakir | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 fakir | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 fakir | det |
| 13 | fakir | fakir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 bow | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 knowing | punct |
| 15 | knowing | know | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 fitted | advcl |
| 16 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 power | nmod:poss |
| 17 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 knowing | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 vanished | punct |
| 19 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 20 vanished | advmod |
| 20 | vanished | vanish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 knowing | advcl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 fitted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fit | past | Rasalu | a magic arrow | to RASALU's bow and the fakir goal | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent arrow=Patient to bow=Goal | |||
| 2 | know | gerund | Rasalu not said here | arrow's power | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer power=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | vanish | participle | Rasalu not said here | immediately property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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