The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 6, sentence 72
The Prime Minister was so hated by the people for his cruelty and oppression that there was general rejoicing in the land at this judgment of the Emperor.
Who acts: people, cruelty · What happens: hate, be, rejoice, judge · To what, where: Prime Minister, land, Emperor
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, cruelty), 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 | 3 Minister | det |
| 2 | Prime | Prime | PROPN | _ | 3 Minister | compound |
| 3 | Minister | Minister | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 hated | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 hated | aux:pass |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 hated | advmod |
| 6 | hated | hate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 people | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 people | det |
| 9 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 hated | obl:agent |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 cruelty | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 cruelty | nmod:poss |
| 12 | cruelty | cruelty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hated | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 oppression | cc |
| 14 | oppression | oppression | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 cruelty | conj |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 general | mark |
| 16 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 18 general | expl |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 general | cop |
| 18 | general | general | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 cruelty | acl |
| 19 | rejoicing | rejoice | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 general | advcl |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 land | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 land | det |
| 22 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 rejoicing | obl |
| 23 | at | at | ADP | _ | 25 judgment | case |
| 24 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 25 judgment | det |
| 25 | judgment | judgment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 rejoicing | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 Emperor | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Emperor | det |
| 28 | Emperor | Emperor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 judgment | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 hated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hate | past · passive | the people | the Prime Minister | for Minister's cruelty and oppression | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer subject=Stimulus for cruelty=Attribute | |||
| 2 | is | past | Minister's cruelty and oppression not said here | there | general property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | rejoice | gerund | Minister's cruelty and oppression not said here | the land | at this judgment of the Emperor | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 4 | judge | the Emperor | nom judgment «cognition transitive»: of=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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