The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 7, sentence 38
She was in the lead, so he took the garland of roses, which he had hidden, and skillfully threw it in front of her.
Who acts: Abibas, king · What happens: be, take, hide, throw · To what, where: lead, garland, roses, front
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), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 lead | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 lead | cop |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 lead | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 lead | det |
| 5 | lead | lead | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 took | punct |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 took | advmod |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 took | nsubj |
| 9 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 lead | parataxis |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 garland | det |
| 11 | garland | garland | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 took | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 roses | case |
| 13 | roses | rose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 garland | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 hidden | punct |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 hidden | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 hidden | nsubj |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 hidden | aux |
| 18 | hidden | hide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 roses | acl:relcl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 threw | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 threw | cc |
| 21 | skillfully | skillfully | ADV | _ | 22 threw | advmod |
| 22 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 took | conj |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 threw | obj |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 front | case |
| 25 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 threw | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 her | case |
| 27 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 front | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 lead | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Abibas | the lead | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | take | past | king | the garland of roses | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent garland=Theme | ||||
| 3 | hide | past · perfect · passive | roses | king nsubj | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 4 | throw | past | king not said here | garland | front of Abibas | skillfully property | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme in front=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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