The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 18, sentence 80
Of course, this made the jackals very indignant, and some of them took counsel together to see what could be done about it.
Who acts: some · What happens: make, take, see, do · To what, where: jackals, counsel · Speech: someone speaks here
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: who acts (some), 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 | Of | of | ADP | _ | 4 this | case |
| 2 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Of | fixed |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Of | punct |
| 4 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 made | obl |
| 5 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 jackals | det |
| 7 | jackals | jackal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 made | obj |
| 8 | very | very | ADV | _ | 9 indignant | advmod |
| 9 | indignant | indignant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 made | xcomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 took | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 took | cc |
| 12 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 took | nsubj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 them | case |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 some | nmod |
| 15 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 made | parataxis |
| 16 | counsel | counsel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 took | obj |
| 17 | together | together | ADV | _ | 15 took | advmod |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 see | mark |
| 19 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 took | advcl |
| 20 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 23 done | obj |
| 21 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 done | aux |
| 22 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 done | aux:pass |
| 23 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 see | ccomp |
| 24 | about | about | ADP | _ | 25 it | case |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 done | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | the jackals | of this; indignant property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset jackal=Product | ||||
| 2 | take | past | some of attendants | counsel | together property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent counsel=Theme | |||
| 3 | see | to-infinitive | some of attendants not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | do | could · passive | about counsel; what obj | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: what=Eventuality |
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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