The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 1, sentence 164

Very soon everyone in the city was talking about the wonderful bird, and even the tradesmen’s children were all named after her, although none of them could sing a note.

Who acts: everyone, none · What happens: talk, name, sing · To what, where: children, note

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, none), 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	Very	very	ADV	_	2 soon	advmod
2	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 everyone	advmod
3	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	8 talking	nsubj
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 city	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 city	det
6	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 everyone	nmod
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 talking	aux
8	talking	talk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
9	about	about	ADP	_	12 bird	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 bird	det
11	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 bird	amod
12	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 talking	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 named	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 named	cc
15	even	even	ADV	_	17 tradesmen	advmod
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 tradesmen	det
17	tradesmen	tradesman	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 children	nmod:poss
18	’s	's	PART	_	17 tradesmen	case
19	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 named	nsubj:pass
20	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 named	aux:pass
21	all	all	ADV	_	22 named	advmod
22	named	name	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 talking	parataxis
23	after	after	ADP	_	24 her	case
24	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 named	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 sing	punct
26	although	although	SCONJ	_	31 sing	mark
27	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	31 sing	nsubj
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 them	case
29	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 none	nmod
30	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 sing	aux
31	sing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 named	conj
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 note	det
33	note	note	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 sing	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 talking	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	talk	past · progressive	everyone in the city			about the wonderful bird	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about bird=Topic
2	name	past · passive		the tradesmen's children	after girl	all property	vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	sing speech: express	could	none of Children	a note			vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location note=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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🌲 The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 1, sentence 164

The tree

Pragmatics

The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 1, sentence 164