The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 24, sentence 41
All the head men consulted together regarding who should be sent, and at last it was decided that Bantugan’s own son, Balatama, was the one to go.
Who acts: head men · What happens: consult, regard, send, decide, be, go · To what, where: head men, proposal, last, one
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 (head men), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 men | det:predet |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 men | det |
| 3 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 men | compound |
| 4 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 one | nsubj |
| 5 | consulted | consult | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 men | acl |
| 6 | together | together | ADV | _ | 5 consulted | advmod |
| 7 | regarding | regard | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 sent | mark |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 sent | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 sent | aux |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 sent | aux:pass |
| 11 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 consulted | advcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 decided | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 decided | cc |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 last | case |
| 15 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 decided | obl |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 decided | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 decided | aux:pass |
| 18 | decided | decide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 sent | parataxis |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 son | mark |
| 20 | Bantugan | Bantugan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 son | nmod:poss |
| 21 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 20 Bantugan | case |
| 22 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 son | amod |
| 23 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 decided | advcl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 Balatama | punct |
| 25 | Balatama | Balatama | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 son | appos |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 men | punct |
| 27 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 one | cop |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 one | det |
| 29 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 go | mark |
| 31 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 one | acl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 29 one | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | consult | participle | all head men not said here | together property | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | regard | gerund | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | send | should · passive | who nsubj:pass | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 4 | decide | past · passive | proposal | last | Bantugan's own son advcl | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Topic | |||
| 5 | is a | past | all head men | the one | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | go | to-infinitive | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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