The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 19, sentence 74
The next thing he did was to use his wizard’s power, and flood the country, so that thousands of people were drowned.
Who acts: Korkwi, next thing · What happens: do, be, flood, drown · To what, where: next thing, country, thousands
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Korkwi, next thing), 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 | 3 thing | det |
| 2 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 thing | amod |
| 3 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 use | nsubj:outer |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 did | nsubj |
| 5 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 thing | acl:relcl |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 use | cop |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 use | mark |
| 8 | use | use | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 wizard | nmod:poss |
| 10 | wizard | wizard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 power | nmod:poss |
| 11 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 10 wizard | case |
| 12 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 use | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 flood | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 flood | cc |
| 15 | flood | flood | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 use | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 country | det |
| 17 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 flood | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 drowned | punct |
| 19 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 25 drowned | mark |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 drowned | mark |
| 21 | thousands | thousand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 drowned | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 people | case |
| 23 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 thousands | nmod |
| 24 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 drowned | aux:pass |
| 25 | drowned | drown | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 flood | parataxis |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 use | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | Korkwi | the next thing not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the next thing | Korkwi's wizard's power obj; use property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | flood | infinitive | the next thing not said here | the country | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent country=Patient | ||||
| 4 | drown | past · passive | thousands of people | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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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