The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 15, sentence 20
All those who were present cheerfully assented, and made the air resound with cries of “Long live Sultan Ahmed,” and in a short time the whole city echoed with the same shouts.
Who acts: air, whole city, Long live Sultan Ahmed · What happens: be, assent, make, resound, echo, shout · To what, where: air, whole city, those
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (air, whole city, Long live Sultan Ahmed), 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 | 2 those | det:predet |
| 2 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 present | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 present | cop |
| 5 | present | present | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 those | acl:relcl |
| 6 | cheerfully | cheerfully | ADV | _ | 7 assented | advmod |
| 7 | assented | assent | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 present | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 made | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 made | cc |
| 10 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 those | acl:relcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 air | det |
| 12 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 made | obj |
| 13 | resound | resound | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 made | xcomp |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 cries | case |
| 15 | cries | cry | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 resound | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 Ahmed | case |
| 17 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 Ahmed | punct |
| 18 | Long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 Ahmed | amod |
| 19 | live | live | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 Ahmed | amod |
| 20 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Ahmed | compound |
| 21 | Ahmed | Ahmed | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 cries | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 made | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 made | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 shouts | cc |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 time | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 time | det |
| 27 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 time | amod |
| 28 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 shouts | obl |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 city | det |
| 30 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 city | amod |
| 31 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 shouts | nsubj |
| 32 | echoed | echo | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 city | acl |
| 33 | with | with | ADP | _ | 35 same | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 same | det |
| 35 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 echoed | obl |
| 36 | shouts | shout | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 made | conj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 those | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | who nsubj; present property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | assent | participle | cheerfully property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | make | past | the air | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | resound | infinitive | the air not said here | with cries of Long live Sultan Ahmed | vn sound_existence-47.4 «NP.location V NP.theme»: agent=Location with cry=Theme | ||||
| 5 | echo | participle | the whole city not said here | with the same | vn sound_existence-47.4 «NP.location V NP.theme»: agent=Location with same=Theme | ||||
| 6 | shout speech: express | present | the whole city | time | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 8 | cry | Long live Sultan Ahmed | nom cry «communication intransitive»: of=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 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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