The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 27, sentence 40
Rasalu then saw that the remaining giant was a woman, and remembering the second direction of the fakir he put back the arrow which he had already fitted to his bow.
Who acts: Rasalu, remaining giant, second direction · What happens: see, be, remember, put back, fit · To what, where: woman, arrow, bow · Speech: someone speaks here
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, remaining giant, second direction), 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 | Rasalu | Rasalu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 saw | advmod |
| 3 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 woman | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 giant | det |
| 6 | remaining | remaining | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 giant | amod |
| 7 | giant | giant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 woman | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 woman | cop |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 woman | det |
| 10 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | ccomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 remembering | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 remembering | cc |
| 13 | remembering | remember | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 saw | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 direction | det |
| 15 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 16 direction | amod |
| 16 | direction | direction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 put | nsubj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 fakir | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 fakir | det |
| 19 | fakir | fakir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 direction | nmod |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 put | nsubj |
| 21 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 remembering | parataxis |
| 22 | back | back | ADV | _ | 21 put | advmod |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 arrow | det |
| 24 | arrow | arrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 put | obj |
| 25 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 fitted | nsubj:pass |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 fitted | nsubj |
| 27 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 fitted | aux |
| 28 | already | already | ADV | _ | 29 fitted | advmod |
| 29 | fitted | fit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 arrow | acl:relcl |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 bow | case |
| 31 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 bow | nmod:poss |
| 32 | bow | bow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 fitted | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | Rasalu | then | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | the remaining giant | a woman | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | remember | gerund | Rasalu not said here | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | put back | past | the second direction of the fakir | the arrow | direction nsubj | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent arrow=Goal | |||
| 5 | fit | past · perfect · passive | the arrow | to direction's bow goal; direction nsubj | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Patient to bow=Goal |
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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