The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 27, sentence 32
At last he saw one of them carrying water towards the base of a rock and he challenged him.
Who acts: mountain, one · What happens: see, carry, challenge · To what, where: one, last, water, base, king
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 (mountain, one), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 saw | obl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 saw | nsubj |
| 4 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 saw | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 them | case |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 one | nmod |
| 8 | carrying | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 saw | xcomp |
| 9 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 carrying | obj |
| 10 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 12 base | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 base | det |
| 12 | base | base | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 carrying | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 rock | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 rock | det |
| 15 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 base | nmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 challenged | cc |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 challenged | nsubj |
| 18 | challenged | challenge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 saw | conj |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 challenged | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | mountain | one of GIANTS | last | tree rules | |||
| 2 | carry | gerund | one of GIANTS not said here | water | the base of a rock | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent water=Theme towards base=Destination | |||
| 3 | challenge | past | mountain | king | tree rules |
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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