The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 5, sentence 40
The task of the third knight was to get the skin of the fire-rat, whose virtue was that no fire could harm it.
Who acts: task, fire · What happens: be, task · To what, where: virtue, third knight
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 (task, fire), 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 | 2 task | det |
| 2 | task | task | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 get | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 knight | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 knight | det |
| 5 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 6 knight | amod |
| 6 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 task | nmod |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 get | cop |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 get | mark |
| 9 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 skin | det |
| 11 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 get | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 rat | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 rat | det |
| 14 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 rat | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 fire | punct |
| 16 | rat | rat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 skin | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 virtue | punct |
| 18 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 19 virtue | nmod:poss |
| 19 | virtue | virtue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 rat | conj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 harm | cop |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 harm | mark |
| 22 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 23 fire | det |
| 23 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 harm | nsubj |
| 24 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 harm | aux |
| 25 | harm | harm | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 virtue | acl:relcl |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 harm | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 get | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the task of the third knight | the skin of the fire rat and the fire rat and virtue's virtue obj; get property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | could · past | no fire | the fire rat and the fire rat and virtue's virtue's virtue not said here | skin obj; harm property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | task | the third knight | nom task «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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