The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 8, sentence 17
They decided to try this means of escape, and it happened just as the King said.
Who acts: net, this, it, King · What happens: decide, try, mean, happen, say · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (net, this, it, 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 decided | nsubj |
| 2 | decided | decide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 try | mark |
| 4 | try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 decided | xcomp |
| 5 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 means | nsubj |
| 6 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 try | ccomp |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 escape | case |
| 8 | escape | escape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 means | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 happened | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 happened | cc |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 happened | nsubj |
| 12 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 decided | conj |
| 13 | just | just | ADV | _ | 17 said | advmod |
| 14 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 said | mark |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 King | det |
| 16 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 said | nsubj |
| 17 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 happened | parataxis |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 decided | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | decide | past | net | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | try not said to happen | to-infinitive | net not said here | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | mean | present | this | of escape | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | happen | past | it | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | past | the King | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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