The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 7, sentence 37
Abibas soon saw that unless he should be able to take the attention of the princess away from the race he would be defeated.
Who acts: Abibas, king, race, princess · What happens: see, be, take, defeat, attend · To what, where: attention, king
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Abibas, king, race, princess), 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 | Abibas | Abibas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | nsubj |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 saw | advmod |
| 3 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 able | mark |
| 5 | unless | unless | SCONJ | _ | 9 able | mark |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 able | nsubj |
| 7 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 able | aux |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 able | cop |
| 9 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 saw | ccomp |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 take | mark |
| 11 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 able | xcomp |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 attention | det |
| 13 | attention | attention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 take | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 princess | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 princess | det |
| 16 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 attention | nmod |
| 17 | away | away | ADV | _ | 11 take | advmod |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 race | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 race | det |
| 20 | race | race | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 away | obl |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 defeated | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 defeated | aux |
| 23 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 24 defeated | aux:pass |
| 24 | defeated | defeat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 race | acl:relcl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | Abibas | soon property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | is a condition, not said to happen | should | king | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | take | to-infinitive | king not said here | the attention of the princess | away property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attention=Theme | |||
| 4 | defeat | would · passive | the race not said here | king | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | attend | the princess | nom attention «cognition intransitive»: of=agent |
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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