The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 5, sentence 10
At length the five knights returned to their homes, where they tried to forget Princess Moonlight, but this they could not do, so they again came to the bamboo-cutter’s house.
Who acts: five knights, knights, this · What happens: return, try, forget, not do, come · To what, where: length, Princess Moonlight, house
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (five knights, knights, this), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 length | case |
| 2 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 returned | obl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 knights | det |
| 4 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 knights | nummod |
| 5 | knights | knight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 returned | nsubj |
| 6 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 homes | case |
| 8 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 homes | nmod:poss |
| 9 | homes | home | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 returned | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 tried | punct |
| 11 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 13 tried | advmod |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 tried | nsubj |
| 13 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 homes | acl:relcl |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 forget | mark |
| 15 | forget | forget | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 tried | xcomp |
| 16 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Moonlight | compound |
| 17 | Moonlight | Moonlight | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 forget | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 do | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 do | cc |
| 20 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 24 do | nsubj:outer |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 do | nsubj |
| 22 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 do | aux |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 do | advmod |
| 24 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 returned | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 came | punct |
| 26 | so | so | ADV | _ | 29 came | advmod |
| 27 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 came | nsubj |
| 28 | again | again | ADV | _ | 29 came | advmod |
| 29 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 returned | conj |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 36 house | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 cutter | det |
| 32 | bamboo | bamboo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 cutter | compound |
| 33 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 32 bamboo | punct |
| 34 | cutter | cutter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 house | nmod:poss |
| 35 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 34 cutter | case |
| 36 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 came | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past | the five knights | length | to knights's homes result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to home=Result | |||
| 2 | try | past | knights = knight | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | forget not said to happen | to-infinitive | knights = knight not said here | Princess Moonlight | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | not do | could | this | knights = knight nsubj | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | come | past | knights = knight | the bamboo cutter's house | again | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial_Location |
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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