The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 27, sentence 43
She then disappeared within a mighty cavern just as Rasalu, urging his horse, made a leap over a great chasm in order to reach her.
Who acts: country · What happens: disappear, urge, make, reach · To what, where: horse, leap, great chasm, country
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 (country), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 disappeared | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 disappeared | advmod |
| 3 | disappeared | disappear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | within | within | ADP | _ | 7 cavern | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 cavern | det |
| 6 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 cavern | amod |
| 7 | cavern | cavern | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 disappeared | obl |
| 8 | just | just | ADV | _ | 10 Rasalu | advmod |
| 9 | as | as | ADP | _ | 10 Rasalu | case |
| 10 | Rasalu | Rasalu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 cavern | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 urging | punct |
| 12 | urging | urge | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 disappeared | advcl |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 horse | nmod:poss |
| 14 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 urging | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 made | punct |
| 16 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 disappeared | conj |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 leap | det |
| 18 | leap | leap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 made | obj |
| 19 | over | over | ADP | _ | 22 chasm | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 chasm | det |
| 21 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 chasm | amod |
| 22 | chasm | chasm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 made | obl |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 order | case |
| 24 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 chasm | nmod |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 reach | mark |
| 26 | reach | reach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 made | advcl |
| 27 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 reach | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 disappeared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | disappear | past | country | then | within a mighty cavern as Rasalu | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | urge | gerund | country not said here | RASALU's horse | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | make | past | country not said here | a leap | a great chasm in order | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset leap=Product | |||
| 4 | reach | to-infinitive | country not said here | country | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent she=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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