--- title: The people began to murmur against the government, and their murmurs… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics description: The people began to murmur against the government, and their murmurs would certainly have been followed by a general revolt if the sultan had not listened to his mother and suffered himself to be prevailed on. Who acts: people, general revolt. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Ori --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/16/98/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Jade Story Book; Stories from the…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/) / [Opening, part 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/16/) / 98 # The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 16, sentence 98 The people began to murmur against the government, and their murmurs would certainly have been followed by a general revolt if the sultan had not listened to his mother and suffered himself to be prevailed on. **Who acts:** people, general revolt · **What happens:** begin, murmur, follow, not listen, suffer, prevail on · **To what, where:** government, murmurs, sultan This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, general revolt), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg65965:16:99 # text = The people began to murmur against the government, and their murmurs would certainly have been followed by a general revolt if the sultan had not listened to his mother and suffered himself to be prevailed on. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 to to PART TO _ 5 mark _ _ 5 murmur murmur VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 xcomp _ _ 6 against against ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 government government NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 11 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 murmurs murmur NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nsubj:pass _ _ 13 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 14 certainly certainly ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 15 have have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 17 aux _ _ 16 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 17 aux:pass _ _ 17 followed follow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 parataxis _ _ 18 by by ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 general general ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 revolt revolt NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 22 if if SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 sultan sultan NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj:pass _ _ 25 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 26 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 27 advmod _ _ 27 listened listen VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 17 parataxis _ _ 28 to to ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 30 mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 32 suffered suffer VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 33 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 32 obj _ _ 34 to to PART TO _ 36 mark _ _ 35 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 36 aux:pass _ _ 36 prevailed prevail VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 32 advcl _ _ 37 on on ADP RP _ 36 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 38 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **begin** | past | the people | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 2 | **murmur** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | the people *not said here* | | | the government | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme against government=Location | | 3 | **follow** | would · perfect · passive | a general revolt | people's murmurs | | | | certainly *property* | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | | 4 | **not** **listen** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · perfect · passive | | the sultan | | | | to SULTAN's mother | tree rules | | 5 | **suffer** | past | the people *not said here* | SULTAN | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer himself=Stimulus | | 6 | **prevail on** | to-infinitive · passive | the people *not said here* | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V» | | 7 | **murmur** | | people | | | | | | nom murmur «event transitive»: poss=agent | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 97](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/16/97/) - next →: [sentence 99](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/16/99/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/16/)