The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 5, sentence 55
The fifth knight was no more successful than was the fourth, so he, too, gave up the attempt.
Who acts: fifth knight, word · What happens: not be, be, give up · To what, where: attempt
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 (fifth knight, word), 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 | fifth | fifth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 knight | amod |
| 3 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 successful | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 successful | cop |
| 5 | no | no | ADV | _ | 7 successful | advmod |
| 6 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 7 successful | advmod |
| 7 | successful | successful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 11 fourth | mark |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 fourth | cop |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 fourth | det |
| 11 | fourth | fourth | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 7 successful | advcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 gave | punct |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 gave | advmod |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 gave | nsubj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 he | punct |
| 16 | too | too | ADV | _ | 18 gave | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 too | punct |
| 18 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 successful | conj |
| 19 | up | up | ADP | _ | 18 gave | compound:prt |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 attempt | det |
| 21 | attempt | attempt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 gave | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 successful | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | the fifth knight | successful property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the fifth knight not said here | fourth property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | give up | past | word | the attempt | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attempt=Source |
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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