The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 24, sentence 82
They went to the Sultan’s city, and their number was so great that they filled the harbor, frightening the people greatly.
Who acts: houses, number · What happens: go, be, fill · To what, where: city, harbor
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 (houses, number), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 city | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Sultan | det |
| 5 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 city | nmod:poss |
| 6 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 5 Sultan | case |
| 7 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 great | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 great | cc |
| 10 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 number | nmod:poss |
| 11 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 great | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 great | cop |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 great | advmod |
| 14 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 went | parataxis |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 filled | mark |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 filled | nsubj |
| 17 | filled | fill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 great | advcl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 harbor | det |
| 19 | harbor | harbor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 filled | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 people | punct |
| 21 | frightening | frightening | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 people | amod |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 people | det |
| 23 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 harbor | conj |
| 24 | greatly | greatly | ADV | _ | 17 filled | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | houses = house | the Sultan's city | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to city=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | is | past | houses's number | great property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | fill | past | houses = house | the harbor and the frightening people | greatly property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent harbor=Patient |
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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