The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 5, sentence 22
The second knight was to go to the Mountain of Horai, in the Eastern Sea, and to bring her a branch of the wonderful jewel-tree that grew on its topmost height.
Who acts: second knight, wonderful jewel tree · What happens: be, bring, grow · To what, where: Eastern Sea, branch, Princess, topmost height
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 (second knight, wonderful jewel tree), 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 | 3 knight | det |
| 2 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 knight | amod |
| 3 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 go | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 go | cop |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 go | mark |
| 6 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 Mountain | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Mountain | det |
| 9 | Mountain | Mountain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 go | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Horai | case |
| 11 | Horai | Horai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Mountain | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 Sea | punct |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 Sea | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Sea | det |
| 15 | Eastern | Eastern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 Sea | compound |
| 16 | Sea | Sea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 go | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 bring | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 bring | cc |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 bring | mark |
| 20 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 go | conj |
| 21 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 bring | obj |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 branch | det |
| 23 | branch | branch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 bring | obj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 tree | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 tree | det |
| 26 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 tree | amod |
| 27 | jewel | jewel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 tree | compound |
| 28 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 27 jewel | punct |
| 29 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 branch | nmod |
| 30 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 grew | nsubj |
| 31 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 tree | acl:relcl |
| 32 | on | on | ADP | _ | 35 height | case |
| 33 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 height | nmod:poss |
| 34 | topmost | topmost | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 height | amod |
| 35 | height | height | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 grew | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the second knight | the Eastern Sea | to the Mountain of Horai; go property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | bring | to-infinitive | the second knight not said here | a branch of the wonderful jewel tree | Princess | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent she=Destination branch=Theme | |||
| 3 | grow | past | the wonderful jewel tree | tree's topmost height | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on height=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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