The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 5, sentence 93
And now came the morning light, and no trace of the moon-chariot was left to those who gazed upwards with tearful eyes, and with a full heart the Emperor ordered his warriors to return.
Who acts: Emperor, warriors · What happens: come, leave, gaze, order, return · To what, where: morning light, trace, those, warriors
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 (Emperor, warriors), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 came | cc |
| 2 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 came | advmod |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 light | det |
| 5 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 light | compound |
| 6 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 left | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 left | cc |
| 9 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 10 trace | det |
| 10 | trace | trace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 left | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 chariot | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 chariot | det |
| 13 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 chariot | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 moon | punct |
| 15 | chariot | chariot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 trace | nmod |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 left | aux:pass |
| 17 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 came | conj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 those | case |
| 19 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 17 left | obl |
| 20 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 gazed | nsubj |
| 21 | gazed | gaze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 those | acl:relcl |
| 22 | upwards | upwards | ADV | _ | 21 gazed | advmod |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 eyes | case |
| 24 | tearful | tearful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 eyes | amod |
| 25 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 gazed | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 ordered | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 ordered | cc |
| 28 | with | with | ADP | _ | 31 heart | case |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 heart | det |
| 30 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 heart | amod |
| 31 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 ordered | obl |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 Emperor | det |
| 33 | Emperor | Emperor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 ordered | nsubj |
| 34 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | parataxis |
| 35 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 warriors | nmod:poss |
| 36 | warriors | warrior | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 ordered | obj |
| 37 | to | to | PART | _ | 38 return | mark |
| 38 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 ordered | xcomp |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the morning light | now | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location light=Theme | ||||
| 2 | leave | past · passive | no trace of the moon chariot | those | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to that=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | gaze | past | with tearful eyes; who nsubj; upwards property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | order | past | the Emperor | Emperor's warriors | with a full heart | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent warrior=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 5 | return not said to happen | to-infinitive | Emperor's warriors not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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