Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 22, sentence 99

The king was very angry when he heard of the theft, and caused proclamation concerning it to be made throughout all the city and surrounding country.

Who acts: king, proclamation · What happens: be, hear, cause, concern, make, surround · To what, where: proclamation, country

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, proclamation), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it 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	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 angry	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 angry	cop
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 angry	advmod
5	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 heard	advmod
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 heard	nsubj
8	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 angry	advcl
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 theft	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 theft	det
11	theft	theft	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 heard	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 caused	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 caused	cc
14	caused	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 angry	conj
15	proclamation	proclamation	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 caused	obj
16	concerning	concern	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 proclamation	acl
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 concerning	obj
18	to	to	PART	_	20 made	mark
19	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 made	aux:pass
20	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 caused	advcl
21	throughout	throughout	ADP	_	24 city	case
22	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	24 city	det:predet
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 city	det
24	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 made	obl
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 surrounding	cc
26	surrounding	surround	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 city	conj
27	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 surrounding	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 angry	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the king			angry property	tree rules
2	hear	past	king			of the theft	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of theft=Stimulus
3	cause	past	the king not said here	proclamation			vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition proclamation=Patient
4	concern	gerund	proclamation not said here	proclamation			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus it=Experiencer
5	make	to-infinitive · passive	the king not said here		throughout all city		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»
6	surround	gerund	the king not said here	country			vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme country=Co-Theme

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: «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7128 (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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