The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 1, sentence 140
“Listen!” and pointing to a little bird sitting up in the branches, said, “There she is.”
Who acts: little bird, Hark · What happens: listen, point, sit up, say, be · To what, where: little bird, branches · 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 (little bird, Hark), 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 | _ | 2 Listen | punct |
| 2 | Listen | listen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 said | ccomp |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Listen | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Listen | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 pointing | cc |
| 6 | pointing | point | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 Listen | conj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 bird | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 bird | det |
| 9 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 bird | amod |
| 10 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pointing | obl |
| 11 | sitting | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 bird | acl |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 sitting | compound:prt |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 branches | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 branches | det |
| 15 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 sitting | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 said | punct |
| 17 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 is | punct |
| 19 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 is | punct |
| 20 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 22 is | expl |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 is | nsubj |
| 22 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 said | ccomp |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 is | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | listen in a quote | infinitive | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | point | gerund | a little bird | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to bird=Recipient | |||||
| 3 | sit up | gerund | a little bird not said here | the branches | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in branch=Location | ||||
| 4 | say speech: express | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 5 | be in a quote | present | Hark | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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: «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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