The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 24, sentence 119
And the Sultan commanded them to stop, as the women and children in the city were being killed by the cannon-balls, but the General said:
Who acts: Sultan, General · What happens: command, stop, kill, say · To what, where: troops, women · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sultan, General), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 commanded | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Sultan | det |
| 3 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 commanded | nsubj |
| 4 | commanded | command | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 commanded | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 stop | mark |
| 7 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 commanded | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 killed | punct |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 19 killed | mark |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 women | det |
| 11 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 children | cc |
| 13 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 women | conj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 city | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 city | det |
| 16 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 women | nmod |
| 17 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 killed | aux:pass |
| 18 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 killed | aux:pass |
| 19 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 stop | conj |
| 20 | by | by | ADP | _ | 24 balls | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 balls | det |
| 22 | cannon | cannon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 balls | compound |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 cannon | punct |
| 24 | balls | ball | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 killed | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 said | punct |
| 26 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 29 said | cc |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 General | det |
| 28 | General | General | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 said | nsubj |
| 29 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 commanded | parataxis |
| 30 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 29 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | command | past | the Sultan | troops | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | stop not said to happen | to-infinitive | the Sultan not said here | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | kill | past · passive | the women in the city and children | by the cannon balls | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | the General | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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