The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 2, sentence 1
Everyone agreed that what the bandmaster said was correct, and the Emperor commanded that all the people of the city should be allowed to listen to the bird’s beautiful music on a certain day of the following week.
Who acts: Everyone, bandmaster, Emperor, people · What happens: agree, say, be, command, allow, listen · To what, where: people · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Everyone, bandmaster, Emperor, people), 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 | Everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 2 agreed | nsubj |
| 2 | agreed | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 said | mark |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 bandmaster | advmod |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 bandmaster | det |
| 6 | bandmaster | bandmaster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 agreed | advcl |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 correct | cop |
| 9 | correct | correct | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 said | xcomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 commanded | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 commanded | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Emperor | det |
| 13 | Emperor | Emperor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 commanded | nsubj |
| 14 | commanded | command | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 agreed | conj |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 allowed | mark |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 people | det:predet |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 people | det |
| 18 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 allowed | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 city | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 city | det |
| 21 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 people | nmod |
| 22 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 allowed | aux |
| 23 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 24 allowed | aux:pass |
| 24 | allowed | allow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 commanded | advcl |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 listen | mark |
| 26 | listen | listen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 allowed | xcomp |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 music | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 bird | det |
| 29 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 music | nmod:poss |
| 30 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 29 bird | case |
| 31 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 music | amod |
| 32 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 listen | obl |
| 33 | on | on | ADP | _ | 36 day | case |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 day | det |
| 35 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 day | amod |
| 36 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 listen | obl |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 week | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 week | det |
| 39 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 40 week | amod |
| 40 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 day | nmod |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 agreed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | agree speech: agree | past | Everyone | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the bandmaster | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | past | the bandmaster not said here | correct property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | command | past | the Emperor | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | allow | should · passive | all people of the city | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 6 | listen not said to happen | to-infinitive | all people of the city not said here | day | to the bird's beautiful music | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to music=Theme | |||
| 7 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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