The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 3, sentence 5
The people were filled with amazement, and the three men were at once taken to the judge, who was much astonished at this unusual occurrence.
What happens: fill, take, astonish · To what, where: people, three men, judge, unusual occurrence
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 people | det |
| 2 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 filled | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 filled | aux:pass |
| 4 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 amazement | case |
| 6 | amazement | amazement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 filled | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 taken | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 taken | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 men | det |
| 10 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 men | nummod |
| 11 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 taken | aux:pass |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 once | case |
| 14 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 15 taken | obl |
| 15 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 filled | conj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 judge | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 judge | det |
| 18 | judge | judge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 taken | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 astonished | punct |
| 20 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 astonished | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 astonished | aux:pass |
| 22 | much | much | ADV | _ | 23 astonished | advmod |
| 23 | astonished | astonish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 judge | acl:relcl |
| 24 | at | at | ADP | _ | 27 occurrence | case |
| 25 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 27 occurrence | det |
| 26 | unusual | unusual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 occurrence | amod |
| 27 | occurrence | occurrence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 astonished | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 filled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fill | past · passive | the people | with amazement | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with amazement=Instrument | ||||
| 2 | take | past · passive | the three men | the judge | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to judge=Destination | ||||
| 3 | astonish | past · passive | the judge | this unusual occurrence | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
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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