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The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 15, sentence 92

In fact, he had become so greedy that the people were in a state of rebellion.

Who acts: Le, people · What happens: become, be · To what, where: fact, state

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 (Le, 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

caseoblpunctnsubjauxadvmodxcompmarkdetnsubjcopcasedetadvclcasenmodpunctrootInADPfactNOUN,PUNCThePRONhadAUXbecomeVERBsoADVgreedyADJthatSCONJtheDETpeopleNOUNwereAUXinADPaDETstateNOUNofADPrebellionNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1IninADP_2 factcase
2factfactNOUNNumber=Sing6 becomeobl
3,,PUNCT_2 factpunct
4hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs6 becomensubj
5hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin6 becomeaux
6becomebecomeVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Partrootroot
7sosoADV_8 greedyadvmod
8greedygreedyADJDegree=Pos6 becomexcomp
9thatthatSCONJ_15 statemark
10thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art11 peopledet
11peoplepeopleNOUNNumber=Plur15 statensubj
12werebeAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin15 statecop
13ininADP_15 statecase
14aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art15 statedet
15statestateNOUNNumber=Sing8 greedyadvcl
16ofofADP_17 rebellioncase
17rebellionrebellionNOUNNumber=Sing15 statenmod
18..PUNCT_6 becomepunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1becomepast · perfectLein fact result; greedy propertyvn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in fact=Result
2ispastthe peoplea stateof rebelliontree rules

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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