The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 17, sentence 62
The merchants of Cairo were surprised and whispered to one another.
Who acts: merchants · What happens: be, whisper · To what, where: one
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (merchants), 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 merchants | det |
| 2 | merchants | merchant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 surprised | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Cairo | case |
| 4 | Cairo | Cairo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 merchants | nmod |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 surprised | cop |
| 6 | surprised | surprised | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 whispered | cc |
| 8 | whispered | whisper | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 surprised | conj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 one | case |
| 10 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 whispered | obl |
| 11 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 one | fixed |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 surprised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the merchants of Cairo | surprised property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | whisper speech: assert | past | the merchants of Cairo not said here | one | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to one=Recipient |
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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