The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 16, sentence 98
The people began to murmur against the government, and their murmurs would certainly have been followed by a general revolt if the sultan had not listened to his mother and suffered himself to be prevailed on.
Who acts: people, general revolt · What happens: begin, murmur, follow, not listen, suffer, prevail on · To what, where: government, murmurs, sultan
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, general revolt), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 people | det |
| 2 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 began | nsubj |
| 3 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 murmur | mark |
| 5 | murmur | murmur | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 began | xcomp |
| 6 | against | against | ADP | _ | 8 government | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 government | det |
| 8 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 murmur | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 followed | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 followed | cc |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 murmurs | nmod:poss |
| 12 | murmurs | murmur | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 followed | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 followed | aux |
| 14 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 17 followed | advmod |
| 15 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 followed | aux |
| 16 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 followed | aux:pass |
| 17 | followed | follow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 began | parataxis |
| 18 | by | by | ADP | _ | 21 revolt | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 revolt | det |
| 20 | general | general | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 revolt | amod |
| 21 | revolt | revolt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 followed | obl |
| 22 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 27 listened | mark |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 sultan | det |
| 24 | sultan | sultan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 listened | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 listened | aux |
| 26 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 27 listened | advmod |
| 27 | listened | listen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 followed | parataxis |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 mother | case |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 mother | nmod:poss |
| 30 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 listened | obl |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 suffered | cc |
| 32 | suffered | suffer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 began | conj |
| 33 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 32 suffered | obj |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 36 prevailed | mark |
| 35 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 36 prevailed | aux:pass |
| 36 | prevailed | prevail | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 32 suffered | advcl |
| 37 | on | on | ADP | _ | 36 prevailed | compound:prt |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | the people | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | murmur speech: other | to-infinitive | the people not said here | the government | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme against government=Location | ||||
| 3 | follow | would · perfect · passive | a general revolt | people's murmurs | certainly property | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | |||
| 4 | not listen a condition, not said to happen | past · perfect · passive | the sultan | to SULTAN's mother | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | suffer | past | the people not said here | SULTAN | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer himself=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | prevail on | to-infinitive · passive | the people not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V» | |||||
| 7 | murmur | people | nom murmur «event 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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