The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 9, sentence 14
Then he carried him back to the others who were entirely satisfied, and said they were ready to go with him.
Who acts: Crane, others · What happens: carry back, be, say, go · To what, where: course, others · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Crane, others), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 carried | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 carried | nsubj |
| 3 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 carried | obj |
| 5 | back | back | ADV | _ | 3 carried | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 others | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 others | det |
| 8 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 carried | obl |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 satisfied | nsubj |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 satisfied | cop |
| 11 | entirely | entirely | ADV | _ | 12 satisfied | advmod |
| 12 | satisfied | satisfied | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 others | acl:relcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 said | cc |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 carried | conj |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 ready | nsubj |
| 17 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 ready | cop |
| 18 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 said | ccomp |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 go | mark |
| 20 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 ready | xcomp |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 him | case |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 go | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 carried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry back | past | Crane | course | the others | then | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to other=Destination | ||
| 2 | is | past | the others | entirely, satisfied property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Crane not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is | past | others = other | ready property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | go | to-infinitive | others = other not said here | with Crane | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with he=Beneficiary |
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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