The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 5, sentence 33
The second knight, with twelve skilled jewelers, went to an island he knew of, and there they designed a gold and silver branch which he was sure would satisfy the Princess.
Who acts: second knight, India, knights, gold · What happens: go, know, design, be, satisfy · To what, where: island, Princess
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, India, knights, gold), 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 | 10 went | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 jewelers | punct |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 jewelers | case |
| 6 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 jewelers | nummod |
| 7 | skilled | skilled | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 jewelers | amod |
| 8 | jewelers | jeweler | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 knight | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 knight | punct |
| 10 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 island | case |
| 12 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 island | det |
| 13 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 went | obl |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 knew | nsubj |
| 15 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 island | acl:relcl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 knew | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 designed | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 designed | cc |
| 19 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 21 designed | expl |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 designed | nsubj |
| 21 | designed | design | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 went | conj |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 gold | det |
| 23 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 satisfy | nsubj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 branch | cc |
| 25 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 branch | compound |
| 26 | branch | branch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 gold | conj |
| 27 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 sure | ccomp |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 sure | nsubj |
| 29 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 sure | cop |
| 30 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 gold | conj |
| 31 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 satisfy | aux |
| 32 | satisfy | satisfy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 designed | ccomp |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 Princess | det |
| 34 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 satisfy | obj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the second knight and twelve skilled jewelers | a island | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to island=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | know | past | India | a island not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer island=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | design | past | knights = knight | there | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is | past | India | a gold and silver branch ccomp; sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | satisfy | would | a gold and silver branch | the Princess | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus princess=Experiencer |
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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