The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Chapter titles have been normalized throughout., sentence 30
Page 265, ‘aginst’ changed to ‘against,’ “to fight against Korkwi”
What happens: change, ‘, fight · To what, where: aginst, Page
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Chapter titles have been normalized throughout.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Page | page | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | 265 | 265 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 Page | flat |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 aginst | punct |
| 4 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 aginst | punct |
| 5 | aginst | aginst | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Page | conj |
| 6 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 aginst | punct |
| 7 | changed | change | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 aginst | acl |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 ‘ | case |
| 9 | ‘ | ‘ | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 changed | xcomp |
| 10 | against | against | ADP | _ | 9 ‘ | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Page | punct |
| 12 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 1 Page | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 fight | punct |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 fight | mark |
| 15 | fight | fight | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Page | parataxis |
| 16 | against | against | ADP | _ | 17 Korkwi | case |
| 17 | Korkwi | Korkwi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 fight | obl |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 fight | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | change | participle | aginst not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | ‘ | infinitive | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | fight in a quote | to-infinitive | against Korkwi | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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