The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 24, sentence 124
Bantugan agreed to this, and word was sent to the Spaniard that the fighting must cease since many women and children were being killed.
Who acts: Bantugan, fighting · What happens: agree, send, cease, kill · To what, where: word, Spaniard, many women
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 (Bantugan, fighting), 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 | Bantugan | Bantugan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 agreed | nsubj |
| 2 | agreed | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 this | case |
| 4 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 agreed | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 sent | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 sent | cc |
| 7 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sent | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 sent | aux:pass |
| 9 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 agreed | parataxis |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 Spaniard | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Spaniard | det |
| 12 | Spaniard | Spaniard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 sent | obl |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 cease | mark |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 fighting | det |
| 15 | fighting | fighting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 cease | nsubj |
| 16 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 cease | aux |
| 17 | cease | cease | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 sent | advcl |
| 18 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 25 killed | mark |
| 19 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 women | amod |
| 20 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 children | cc |
| 22 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 women | conj |
| 23 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 killed | aux:pass |
| 24 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 25 killed | aux:pass |
| 25 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 cease | advcl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 agreed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | agree speech: agree | past | Bantugan | to this | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | send | past · passive | word | the Spaniard | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to spaniard=Destination | ||||
| 3 | cease | must | the fighting | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | kill | past · passive | many women and children | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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