The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 2, sentence 111
The alarm was spread, and went through the whole city.
What happens: spread, go · To what, where: alarm, whole city
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: 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 alarm | det |
| 2 | alarm | alarm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 spread | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 spread | aux:pass |
| 4 | spread | spread | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 went | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 went | cc |
| 7 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 spread | conj |
| 8 | through | through | ADP | _ | 11 city | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 city | det |
| 10 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 city | amod |
| 11 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 went | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 spread | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spread | past · passive | the alarm | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | go | past | the whole city | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through city=Initial_Location |
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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