The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 27, sentence 35
But when they saw that it was King Rasalu who had come against them they were afraid, for they had heard of his might.
Who acts: GIANTS, noise, King · What happens: see, be, come, hear · To what, where: 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 (GIANTS, noise, King), 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 | _ | 4 saw | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 saw | advmod |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 saw | nsubj |
| 4 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 come | mark |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 King | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 King | cop |
| 8 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 come | nsubj |
| 9 | Rasalu | Rasalu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 King | flat |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 come | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 come | aux |
| 12 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 afraid | advcl |
| 13 | against | against | ADP | _ | 14 them | case |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 come | obl |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 afraid | nsubj |
| 16 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 afraid | cop |
| 17 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 saw | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 heard | punct |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 heard | case |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 heard | nsubj |
| 21 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 heard | aux |
| 22 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 afraid | parataxis |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 might | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 might | nmod:poss |
| 25 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 heard | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | GIANTS = giant | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | noise | King | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | come | past · perfect | King | against GIANTS = giant; who nsubj | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme against they=Location | ||||
| 4 | is | past | GIANTS = giant | afraid property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | hear | past · perfect | GIANTS = giant | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer |
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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