The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 27, sentence 44
The Rájá dismounted, but by this time the giantess was a long way within the mountain.
Who acts: Rájá, giantess · What happens: dismount, be · To what, where: long way
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 (Rájá, giantess), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Rájá | det |
| 2 | Rájá | Rájá | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 dismounted | nsubj |
| 3 | dismounted | dismount | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 way | punct |
| 5 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 way | cc |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 time | case |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 time | det |
| 8 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 way | obl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 giantess | det |
| 10 | giantess | giantess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 way | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 way | cop |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 way | det |
| 13 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 way | amod |
| 14 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 dismounted | ccomp |
| 15 | within | within | ADP | _ | 17 mountain | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 mountain | det |
| 17 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 way | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 dismounted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dismount | past | the Rájá | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | the giantess | a long way | time | within the mountain | tree rules |
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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