The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 1, sentence 117
He called his First Lord to him and said, “In all of these books there is mention of a very remarkable bird which is called ‘The Nightingale.’
Who acts: EMPEROR, mention · What happens: call, say, be, mention · To what, where: First Lord, BOOK, remarkable bird · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (EMPEROR, mention), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 called | nsubj |
| 2 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 Lord | nmod:poss |
| 4 | First | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 Lord | amod |
| 5 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 called | obj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 him | case |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 called | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 said | cc |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 called | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 all | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 all | punct |
| 12 | In | in | ADP | _ | 13 all | case |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 said | ccomp |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 books | case |
| 15 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 16 books | det |
| 16 | books | book | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 all | nmod |
| 17 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 18 is | expl |
| 18 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 all | acl:relcl |
| 19 | mention | mention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 is | nsubj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 bird | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 bird | det |
| 22 | very | very | ADV | _ | 23 remarkable | advmod |
| 23 | remarkable | remarkable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 bird | amod |
| 24 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 mention | nmod |
| 25 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 called | nsubj:pass |
| 26 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 called | aux:pass |
| 27 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 bird | acl:relcl |
| 28 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 30 Nightingale | punct |
| 29 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 Nightingale | det |
| 30 | Nightingale | Nightingale | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 called | xcomp |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 called | punct |
| 32 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | past | EMPEROR | EMPEROR's First Lord | BOOK | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent lord=Topic to he=Recipient | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | EMPEROR not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | be in a quote | present | mention of a remarkable bird | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | call in a quote | present · passive | a remarkable bird | the Nightingale xcomp | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | mention in a quote | a remarkable bird | nom mention «communication 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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