The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 27, sentence 39
But the King pursued them, bow in hand, and with the exception of one only, he slew them all with his invincible arrows.
Who acts: King · What happens: pursue, slay · To what, where: GIANTS
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 (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 pursued | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 King | det |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 pursued | nsubj |
| 4 | pursued | pursue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 pursued | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 bow | punct |
| 7 | bow | bow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pursued | obl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 hand | case |
| 9 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bow | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 exception | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 exception | cc |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 exception | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 exception | det |
| 14 | exception | exception | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pursued | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 one | case |
| 16 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 exception | nmod |
| 17 | only | only | ADV | _ | 16 one | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 slew | punct |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 slew | nsubj |
| 20 | slew | slay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 pursued | conj |
| 21 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 slew | obj |
| 22 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 them | nmod:unmarked |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 arrows | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 arrows | nmod:poss |
| 25 | invincible | invincible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 arrows | amod |
| 26 | arrows | arrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 slew | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 pursued | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pursue | past | the King | GIANTS = giant | with the exception of one; bow in hand obl | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | |||
| 2 | slay | past | king | GIANTS = giant | with king's invincible arrows | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent they=Patient with arrow=Instrument |
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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