The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 1, sentence 155
All were dressed in their best clothes and everyone looked toward the little bird, whom the Emperor requested to commence singing.
Who acts: everyone, Emperor · What happens: dress, look, request, commence, sing · To what, where: All, best clothes, little bird
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, 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 (everyone, Emperor), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 dressed | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 dressed | aux:pass |
| 3 | dressed | dress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 clothes | case |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 clothes | nmod:poss |
| 6 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 7 clothes | amod |
| 7 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 3 dressed | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 looked | cc |
| 9 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 10 looked | nsubj |
| 10 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 dressed | conj |
| 11 | toward | toward | ADP | _ | 14 bird | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 bird | det |
| 13 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 bird | amod |
| 14 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 looked | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 requested | punct |
| 16 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 requested | obj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Emperor | det |
| 18 | Emperor | Emperor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 requested | nsubj |
| 19 | requested | request | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 bird | conj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 commence | mark |
| 21 | commence | commence | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 requested | xcomp |
| 22 | singing | sing | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 21 commence | xcomp |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 dressed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dress | past · passive | All | BIRDS's best clothes | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | look | past | everyone | toward the little bird | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent toward bird=Theme | ||||
| 3 | request | past | the Emperor | the little bird | vn beg-58.2 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent whom=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | commence | to-infinitive | the Emperor not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | sing speech: express | gerund | the Emperor not said here | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=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 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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