The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 5, sentence 84
From the chariot stepped one who had the look of a king, and who trod the air as easily and as gracefully as though he were on hard ground.
Who acts: one, king · What happens: step, have, tread, be · To what, where: chariot, look, air, hard ground
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 (one, king), 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 | From | from | ADP | _ | 3 chariot | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 chariot | det |
| 3 | chariot | chariot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stepped | obl |
| 4 | stepped | step | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 had | nsubj |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 had | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 stepped | ccomp |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 look | det |
| 9 | look | look | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 had | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 king | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 king | det |
| 12 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 look | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 trod | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 trod | cc |
| 15 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 trod | nsubj |
| 16 | trod | tread | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 stepped | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 air | det |
| 18 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 trod | obj |
| 19 | as | as | ADP | _ | 20 easily | case |
| 20 | easily | easily | ADV | _ | 16 trod | advmod |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 gracefully | cc |
| 22 | as | as | ADV | _ | 23 gracefully | advmod |
| 23 | gracefully | gracefully | ADV | _ | 20 easily | conj |
| 24 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 30 ground | mark |
| 25 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 30 ground | mark |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 ground | nsubj |
| 27 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 ground | cop |
| 28 | on | on | ADP | _ | 30 ground | case |
| 29 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 ground | amod |
| 30 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 trod | advcl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 stepped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | step | past | the chariot | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | have | past | one | the look of a king | who nsubj | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent look=Patient | |||
| 3 | tread | past | the air | who nsubj; easily property | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location air=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is | past | king | hard ground | tree rules |
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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