The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 27, sentence 15
The King’s attendants were stricken with fear, and said, “How great must be the power of this fakir when even tigers are under his sway!
Who acts: attendants, tigers · What happens: be, say · To what, where: great power, sway · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (attendants, tigers), 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 King | det |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 attendants | nmod:poss |
| 3 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 2 King | case |
| 4 | attendants | attendant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 stricken | nsubj |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 stricken | cop |
| 6 | stricken | stricken | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 fear | case |
| 8 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stricken | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 said | cc |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 stricken | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 power | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 power | punct |
| 14 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 great | advmod |
| 15 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 power | amod |
| 16 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 power | aux |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 power | cop |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 power | det |
| 19 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | ccomp |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 fakir | case |
| 21 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 fakir | det |
| 22 | fakir | fakir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 power | nmod |
| 23 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 29 sway | advmod |
| 24 | even | even | ADV | _ | 25 tigers | advmod |
| 25 | tigers | tiger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 sway | nsubj |
| 26 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 sway | cop |
| 27 | under | under | ADP | _ | 29 sway | case |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 sway | nmod:poss |
| 29 | sway | sway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | obl |
| 30 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 stricken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the King's attendants | with fear; stricken property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: express | past | the King's attendants not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | must | the great power | of this fakir | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | tigers | FAKIR's sway | FAKIR nmod:poss | tree rules |
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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