The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 5, sentence 51
When but a few days out they ran into a fearful storm, and before this abated, the ship was driven on shore.
Who acts: knights · What happens: run, abate, drive · To what, where: fearful storm, this, ship, shore
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 (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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 out | advmod |
| 2 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 out | cc |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 days | det |
| 4 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 days | amod |
| 5 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 out | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | out | out | ADV | _ | 8 ran | advmod |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 ran | nsubj |
| 8 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 12 storm | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 storm | det |
| 11 | fearful | fearful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 storm | amod |
| 12 | storm | storm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 ran | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 driven | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 driven | cc |
| 15 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 17 abated | mark |
| 16 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 abated | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | abated | abate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 driven | advcl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 abated | punct |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 ship | det |
| 20 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 driven | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 driven | aux:pass |
| 22 | driven | drive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 ran | conj |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 shore | case |
| 24 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 driven | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past | knights = knight | into a fearful storm result; out property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into storm=Result | ||||
| 2 | abate | participle · passive | this | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 3 | drive | past · passive | the ship | shore | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme on shore=Destination |
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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