The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 5, sentence 4
These five were very determined knights, whose ardor became the greater as their quest became the more difficult.
Who acts: five determined knights, quest, knights · What happens: be, become, quest · To what, where: five determined knights
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 determined knights, quest, knights), 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 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 2 five | det |
| 2 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 knights | nummod |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 knights | cop |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 determined | advmod |
| 5 | determined | determined | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 knights | amod |
| 6 | knights | knight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 became | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 became | punct |
| 8 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 9 ardor | nmod:poss |
| 9 | ardor | ardor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 became | nsubj |
| 10 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 greater | det |
| 12 | greater | great | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 10 became | xcomp |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 16 became | mark |
| 14 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 quest | nmod:poss |
| 15 | quest | quest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 became | nsubj |
| 16 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 became | advcl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 more | det |
| 18 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 19 difficult | advmod |
| 19 | difficult | difficult | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 became | xcomp |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 became | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | five determined knights | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | become | past | five determined knights | ardor nsubj; great property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | become | past | knights's quest | difficult property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | quest | knights = knight | nom quest «cognition intransitive»: poss=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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