The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 24, sentence 58
The courtiers slowly shook their heads and began to offer objections.
Who acts: courtiers · What happens: shake, begin, offer · To what, where: heads, objections
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 (courtiers), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 courtiers | det |
| 2 | courtiers | courtier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 shook | nsubj |
| 3 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 4 shook | advmod |
| 4 | shook | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 heads | nmod:poss |
| 6 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 shook | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 began | cc |
| 8 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 shook | conj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 offer | mark |
| 10 | offer | offer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 began | xcomp |
| 11 | objections | objection | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 offer | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 shook | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shake | past | the courtiers | courtiers's heads | slowly property | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent head=Patient | |||
| 2 | begin | past | the courtiers not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | offer | to-infinitive | the courtiers not said here | objections | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent objection=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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