The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 22, sentence 66
One night, when some thieves came to his house, he would have been robbed and killed had it not been for the magic words “Boombye, Boomba,” which caused the death of all the robbers.
Who acts: thieves, magic words, robbers · What happens: come, rob, kill, have, not be, cause · To what, where: house, JUAN, death
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thieves, magic words, robbers), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 night | nummod |
| 2 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 came | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 night | punct |
| 4 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 7 came | mark |
| 5 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 thieves | det |
| 6 | thieves | thief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 came | nsubj |
| 7 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 house | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 house | nmod:poss |
| 10 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 came | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 robbed | punct |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 robbed | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 robbed | aux |
| 14 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 robbed | aux |
| 15 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 robbed | aux:pass |
| 16 | robbed | rob | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 came | parataxis |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 killed | cc |
| 18 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 robbed | conj |
| 19 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 came | conj |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 had | obj |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 26 words | advmod |
| 22 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 26 words | cop |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 words | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 words | det |
| 25 | magic | magic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 words | compound |
| 26 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 had | obj |
| 27 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 Boombye | punct |
| 28 | Boombye | Boombye | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 words | appos |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 Boomba | punct |
| 30 | Boomba | Boomba | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Boombye | conj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 ” | punct |
| 32 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 Boombye | punct |
| 33 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 34 caused | nsubj |
| 34 | caused | cause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 words | parataxis |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 death | det |
| 36 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 caused | obj |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 robbers | case |
| 38 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 40 robbers | det:predet |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 robbers | det |
| 40 | robbers | robber | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 death | nmod |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | some thieves | JUAN's house | night | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | rob | would · perfect · passive | JUAN | vn cheat-10.6.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Source | |||||
| 3 | kill | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 4 | have | past | some thieves not said here | house | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 5 | not is | participle | for the magic words; Boombye and Boomba appos | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | cause | past | the magic words | the death of all robbers | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition death=Patient | ||||
| 7 | die | all robbers | nom death «event intransitive»: of=agent |
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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