The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 27, sentence 37
Then they set up seven plates of iron, and the King sent his arrow through them all.
Who acts: GIANTS, King · What happens: set up, send · To what, where: seven plates, arrow
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, 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 set | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 set | nsubj |
| 3 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 set | compound:prt |
| 5 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 plates | nummod |
| 6 | plates | plate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 set | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 iron | case |
| 8 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 plates | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 sent | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 sent | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 King | det |
| 12 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 sent | nsubj |
| 13 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 set | conj |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 arrow | nmod:poss |
| 15 | arrow | arrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sent | obj |
| 16 | through | through | ADP | _ | 17 them | case |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 sent | obl |
| 18 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 them | nmod:unmarked |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set up | past | GIANTS = giant | seven plates of iron | then | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient plate=Result | |||
| 2 | send | past | the King | king's arrow | through GIANTS = giant | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arrow=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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