More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 7, sentence 139

John, on the strength of his former valiant deed, was chosen to quell the rebellion.

What happens: choose, quell · To what, where: John, rebellion

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 chosen	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 strength	punct
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 strength	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 strength	det
5	strength	strength	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 John	appos
6	of	of	ADP	_	10 deed	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 deed	nmod:poss
8	former	former	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 deed	amod
9	valiant	valiant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 deed	amod
10	deed	deed	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 strength	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 John	punct
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 chosen	aux:pass
13	chosen	choose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
14	to	to	PART	_	15 quell	mark
15	quell	quell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 chosen	xcomp
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 rebellion	det
17	rebellion	rebellion	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 quell	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 chosen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	choose	past · passive		John					tree rules
2	quell	to-infinitive		the rebellion					vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rebellion=Patient

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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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