The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 20, sentence 4
This was done, and a great fire was made of all that was collected, and then everyone was ordered to fill a bag full of the ashes.
Who acts: everyone · What happens: do, make, collect, order, fill · To what, where: This, great fire, everyone, bag
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (everyone), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 done | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 done | aux:pass |
| 3 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 made | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 made | cc |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 fire | det |
| 7 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 fire | amod |
| 8 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 made | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 made | aux:pass |
| 10 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 done | parataxis |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 all | case |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 made | obl |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 collected | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 collected | aux:pass |
| 15 | collected | collect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 all | acl:relcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 ordered | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 ordered | cc |
| 18 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 ordered | advmod |
| 19 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 21 ordered | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 ordered | aux:pass |
| 21 | ordered | order | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 done | parataxis |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 fill | mark |
| 23 | fill | fill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 ordered | xcomp |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 bag | det |
| 25 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 fill | obj |
| 26 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 fill | xcomp |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 ashes | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 ashes | det |
| 29 | ashes | ash | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 full | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 done | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past · passive | This | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | make | past · passive | a great fire | of all | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | ||||
| 3 | collect | past · passive | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | order | past · passive | everyone | then | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | fill not said to happen | to-infinitive | everyone not said here | a bag | full property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent bag=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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