The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 7, sentence 108

So they called a meeting of all the birds of the forest, told them what had happened, and the poor old Vulture was sentenced to death, and accordingly was executed.”

Who acts: birds · What happens: call, tell, happen, sentence, execute · To what, where: meeting, birds, poor old Vulture · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (birds), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 called	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 called	nsubj
3	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 meeting	det
5	meeting	meeting	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 called	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 birds	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 birds	det:predet
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 birds	det
9	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 meeting	nmod
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 forest	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 forest	det
12	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 birds	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 told	punct
14	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 called	conj
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 told	iobj
16	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	18 happened	nsubj
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 happened	aux
18	happened	happen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 told	ccomp
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 sentenced	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 sentenced	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 Vulture	det
22	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 Vulture	amod
23	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 Vulture	amod
24	Vulture	Vulture	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 sentenced	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 sentenced	aux:pass
26	sentenced	sentence	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 happened	conj
27	to	to	ADP	_	28 death	case
28	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 sentenced	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 executed	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 executed	cc
31	accordingly	accordingly	ADV	_	33 executed	advmod
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 executed	aux:pass
33	executed	execute	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 called	conj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 called	punct
35	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 called	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	call	past	birds = bird	a meeting of all birds of the forest			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent meeting=Recipient
2	tell speech: assert	past	birds = bird not said here		birds = bird		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
3	happen	past · perfect				what nsubj	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	sentence	past · passive		the poor old Vulture		to death	tree rules
5	execute	past · passive	birds = bird not said here			accordingly property	vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»

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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🌲 The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 7, sentence 108

The tree

Pragmatics

The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 7, sentence 108