The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 12, sentence 53
A concert accompanied the feast, formed of the most harmonious instruments that were ever heard.
Who acts: concert · What happens: accompany, form, hear · To what, where: feast, harmonious instruments
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (concert), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 concert | det |
| 2 | concert | concert | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 accompanied | nsubj |
| 3 | accompanied | accompany | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 feast | det |
| 5 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 accompanied | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 formed | punct |
| 7 | formed | form | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 feast | acl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 instruments | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 instruments | det |
| 10 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 11 harmonious | advmod |
| 11 | harmonious | harmonious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 instruments | amod |
| 12 | instruments | instrument | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 formed | obl |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 heard | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 heard | aux:pass |
| 15 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 16 heard | advmod |
| 16 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 instruments | acl:relcl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 accompanied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | accompany | past | a concert | the feast | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feast=Theme | ||||
| 2 | form | participle | the feast not said here | of the harmonious instruments | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | hear | past · passive | the harmonious instruments | ever | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus |
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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