The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 18, sentence 78
The jackals were overcome by the distinguished color, and promised obedience, and so began the reign of the dyed Jackal.
What happens: overcome, promise, begin, dye · To what, where: jackals, obedience, reign
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 jackals | det |
| 2 | jackals | jackal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 overcome | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 overcome | aux:pass |
| 4 | overcome | overcome | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 color | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 color | det |
| 7 | distinguished | distinguished | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 color | amod |
| 8 | color | color | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 overcome | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 promised | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 promised | cc |
| 11 | promised | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 overcome | parataxis |
| 12 | obedience | obedience | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 promised | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 began | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 began | cc |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 began | advmod |
| 16 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 promised | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 reign | det |
| 18 | reign | reign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 began | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 Jackal | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Jackal | det |
| 21 | dyed | dye | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 Jackal | amod |
| 22 | Jackal | Jackal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 reign | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 overcome | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | overcome | past · passive | the jackals | by the distinguished color | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | promise speech: promise | past | obedience | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent obedience=Theme | |||||
| 3 | begin | past | the reign of the dyed Jackal | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reign=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | dye | participle | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=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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