The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 1, sentence 121
The First Lord didn’t know where it was, so he ran all over the palace and asked everybody there, but none of them had ever heard of the Nightingale.
Who acts: First Lord, mention, Lord, none · What happens: not know, be, run, ask, hear · To what, where: palace, everybody · 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, mention, Lord, none), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Lord | det |
| 2 | First | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 Lord | amod |
| 3 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 know | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 know | aux |
| 5 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 know | advmod |
| 6 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 9 was | advmod |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 was | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 know | ccomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 ran | punct |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 ran | advmod |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 ran | nsubj |
| 13 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 know | parataxis |
| 14 | all | all | ADV | _ | 17 palace | advmod |
| 15 | over | over | ADP | _ | 17 palace | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 palace | det |
| 17 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 ran | obj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 asked | cc |
| 19 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 ran | conj |
| 20 | everybody | everybody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 19 asked | iobj |
| 21 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 everybody | advmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 heard | punct |
| 23 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 29 heard | cc |
| 24 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 29 heard | nsubj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 them | case |
| 26 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 none | nmod |
| 27 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 heard | aux |
| 28 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 29 heard | advmod |
| 29 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 know | parataxis |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 Nightingale | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 Nightingale | det |
| 32 | Nightingale | Nightingale | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 heard | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not know | past · do-support | the First Lord | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | be | past | mention | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | run | past | Lord | the palace | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme palace=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | past | Lord not said here | everybody | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent everybody=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | hear | past · perfect | none of BIRDS | ever | of the Nightingale | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of nightingale=Stimulus |
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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