The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 9, sentence 35
Such terror did he inspire among the other animals of the jungle, and so many of them did he kill for his daily food, that they held a public meeting to see what could be done about it.
Who acts: Such terror, many, animals · What happens: inspire, kill, hold, see, do · To what, where: public meeting · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Such terror, many, animals), 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 | Such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 terror | amod |
| 2 | terror | terror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 inspire | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 inspire | aux |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 inspire | nsubj |
| 5 | inspire | inspire | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | among | among | ADP | _ | 9 animals | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 animals | det |
| 8 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 animals | amod |
| 9 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 inspire | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 jungle | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 jungle | det |
| 12 | jungle | jungle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 animals | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 kill | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 kill | cc |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 many | advmod |
| 16 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 kill | nsubj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 them | case |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 many | nmod |
| 19 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 kill | aux |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 kill | nsubj |
| 21 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 inspire | conj |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 food | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 food | nmod:poss |
| 24 | daily | daily | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 food | amod |
| 25 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 kill | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 held | punct |
| 27 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 29 held | mark |
| 28 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 held | nsubj |
| 29 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 kill | parataxis |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 meeting | det |
| 31 | public | public | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 meeting | amod |
| 32 | meeting | meeting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 held | obj |
| 33 | to | to | PART | _ | 34 see | mark |
| 34 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 held | advcl |
| 35 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 38 done | obj |
| 36 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 38 done | aux |
| 37 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 38 done | aux:pass |
| 38 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 34 see | ccomp |
| 39 | about | about | ADP | _ | 40 it | case |
| 40 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 done | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 inspire | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | inspire | past · do-support | Such terror | among the other animals of the jungle; terror nsubj | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | kill | past · do-support | many of animals | for terror's daily food; terror nsubj | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | hold | past | animals = animal | a public meeting | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meeting=Theme | ||||
| 4 | see | to-infinitive | animals = animal not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | do | could · passive | about meeting; what obj | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: what=Eventuality |
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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