The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 124

There were four other negroes at the place; three I killed and the fourth got away, and has taken refuge beneath the throne of Mihr-afruz, daughter of King Quimus.

Who acts: four other negroes, I, fourth · What happens: be, kill, get away, take · To what, where: place, three, refuge

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (four other negroes, I, fourth), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 were	expl
2	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 negroes	nummod
4	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 negroes	amod
5	negroes	negro	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 were	nsubj
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 place	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 place	det
8	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 were	obl
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 killed	punct
10	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 killed	obl
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 killed	nsubj
12	killed	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 were	parataxis
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 got	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 fourth	det
15	fourth	fourth	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 got	nsubj
16	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 killed	conj
17	away	away	ADV	_	16 got	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 taken	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 taken	cc
20	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 taken	aux
21	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 killed	conj
22	refuge	refuge	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 taken	obj
23	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	25 throne	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 throne	det
25	throne	throne	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 taken	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	29 afruz	case
27	Mihr	Mihr	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 afruz	compound
28	-	-	PUNCT	_	27 Mihr	punct
29	afruz	afruz	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 throne	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 daughter	punct
31	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 throne	conj
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 Quimus	case
33	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 Quimus	compound
34	Quimus	Quimus	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 daughter	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 were	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	four other negroes		the place; there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at place=Location
2	kill	past	I	three			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	get away	past	the fourth			away property	vn withdraw-82-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	take	present · perfect	I not said here	refuge		beneath the throne of Mihr afruz and daughter of King Quimus	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent refuge=Theme

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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