The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 1, sentence 77
On the seventh day they all started, amidst thunderous salutes from the ramparts of the city, and much dust, and cheering, and blaring of trumpets.
Who acts: intentions · What happens: start, cheer, blare · To what, where: much dust
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (intentions), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 4 day | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 day | det |
| 3 | seventh | seventh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 day | amod |
| 4 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 started | obl |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 started | nsubj |
| 6 | all | all | ADV | _ | 7 started | advmod |
| 7 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 salutes | punct |
| 9 | amidst | amidst | ADP | _ | 11 salutes | case |
| 10 | thunderous | thunderous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 salutes | amod |
| 11 | salutes | salute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 started | obl |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 ramparts | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 ramparts | det |
| 14 | ramparts | rampart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 salutes | nmod |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 city | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 city | det |
| 17 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 ramparts | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 dust | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 dust | cc |
| 20 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 dust | amod |
| 21 | dust | dust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 started | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 cheering | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 cheering | cc |
| 24 | cheering | cheer | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 started | advcl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 blaring | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 blaring | cc |
| 27 | blaring | blare | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 24 cheering | conj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 trumpets | case |
| 29 | trumpets | trumpet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 blaring | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 started | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start | past | intentions = intention | much dust | day | amidst thunderous salutes from the ramparts of the city; all property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||
| 2 | cheer | gerund | intentions = intention not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | blare | gerund | intentions = intention not said here | of trumpets | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: 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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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