The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 15, sentence 4
When they arrived at the gates of the capital, the people, as soon as they saw Schaibar, either hid themselves in their shops and houses, and shut their doors, or they took to their heels, and communicated their fear to all they met.
Who acts: they, people · What happens: arrive, see, hide, shut, take, communicate · To what, where: gates, Schaibar, people, shops, doors, fear
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 (they, people), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 arrived | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 arrived | nsubj |
| 3 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 saw | advcl |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 gates | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 gates | det |
| 6 | gates | gate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 arrived | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 capital | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 capital | det |
| 9 | capital | capital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 gates | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 people | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 people | det |
| 12 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 gates | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 arrived | punct |
| 14 | as | as | ADV | _ | 15 soon | advmod |
| 15 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 18 saw | advmod |
| 16 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 18 saw | mark |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 saw | nsubj |
| 18 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | Schaibar | Schaibar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 saw | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 hid | punct |
| 21 | either | either | CCONJ | _ | 22 hid | cc:preconj |
| 22 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 saw | conj |
| 23 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 22 hid | obj |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 shops | case |
| 25 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 shops | nmod:poss |
| 26 | shops | shop | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 hid | obl |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 houses | cc |
| 28 | houses | house | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 shops | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 shut | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 shut | cc |
| 31 | shut | shut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 saw | parataxis |
| 32 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 doors | nmod:poss |
| 33 | doors | door | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 shut | obj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 took | punct |
| 35 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 37 took | cc |
| 36 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 took | nsubj |
| 37 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 shut | conj |
| 38 | to | to | ADP | _ | 40 heels | case |
| 39 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 heels | nmod:poss |
| 40 | heels | heel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 took | obl |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 communicated | punct |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 communicated | cc |
| 43 | communicated | communicate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 saw | conj |
| 44 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 45 fear | nmod:poss |
| 45 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 communicated | obj |
| 46 | to | to | ADP | _ | 47 all | case |
| 47 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 43 communicated | obl |
| 48 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 49 met | nsubj |
| 49 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 47 all | acl:relcl |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrive | past | they | the gates of the capital and the people | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | past | people | Schaibar | soon property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer schaibar=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | hide | past | people not said here | people | people's shops and houses | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient in shop=Location | |||
| 4 | shut | past | people's doors | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent door=Patient | |||||
| 5 | take | past | people | to people's heels result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to heel=Result | ||||
| 6 | communicate | past | people not said here | people's fear | all | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent fear=Topic to all=Recipient | |||
| 7 | meet | past | people | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 8 | fear | people | nom fear «feeling transitive»: poss=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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