The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 1, sentence 120
“Why, I don’t know anything about it myself,” said the First Lord, “but I will go and find it.”
Who acts: First Lord · What happens: not know, say, go, find · To what, where: anything, mention · 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 (First Lord), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 know | punct |
| 2 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 know | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Why | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 know | nsubj |
| 5 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 know | aux |
| 6 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 know | advmod |
| 7 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 said | ccomp |
| 8 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 7 know | obj |
| 9 | about | about | ADP | _ | 10 it | case |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 anything | nmod |
| 11 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 8 anything | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 know | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 know | punct |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Lord | det |
| 16 | First | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 17 Lord | amod |
| 17 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 said | nsubj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 go | punct |
| 19 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 go | punct |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 go | cc |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 go | nsubj |
| 22 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 go | aux |
| 23 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 said | ccomp |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 find | cc |
| 25 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 go | conj |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 find | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 go | punct |
| 28 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not know in a quote | present · do-support | the First Lord = lord | anything myself | about mention | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer anything=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the First Lord | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | go in a quote | future | the First Lord = lord | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | find in a quote | infinitive | the First Lord = lord not said here | mention | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic |
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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