The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 27, sentence 9
So one day, accompanied by his retinue, he set out for the village of Tilláh, where the holy man dwelt.
Who acts: FAKIR, holy man · What happens: accompany, set out, dwell · To what, where: one day
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 (FAKIR, holy man), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 11 set | advmod |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 day | nummod |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 set | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 accompanied | punct |
| 5 | accompanied | accompany | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 day | acl |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 retinue | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 retinue | nmod:poss |
| 8 | retinue | retinue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 accompanied | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 day | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 set | nsubj |
| 11 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 set | compound:prt |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 village | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 village | det |
| 15 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 set | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 Tilláh | case |
| 17 | Tilláh | Tilláh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 village | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 dwelt | punct |
| 19 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 23 dwelt | advmod |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 man | det |
| 21 | holy | holy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 man | amod |
| 22 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 dwelt | nsubj |
| 23 | dwelt | dwell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 Tilláh | acl:relcl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | accompany | participle | one day not said here | by FAKIR's retinue | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by retinue=Destination | ||||
| 2 | set out | past | FAKIR | day | for the village of Tilláh | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | dwell | past | the holy man | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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