The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 1, sentence 141
“It doesn’t seem possible that so very common looking a bird as that can sing,” said the First Lord.
Who acts: It, looking, First Lord · What happens: not seem, look, sing, say · To what, where: 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 (It, looking, 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 | _ | 5 seem | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 seem | nsubj |
| 3 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 seem | aux |
| 4 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 seem | advmod |
| 5 | seem | seem | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 said | ccomp |
| 6 | possible | possible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 seem | xcomp |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 possible | dep |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 common | advmod |
| 9 | very | very | ADV | _ | 10 common | advmod |
| 10 | common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 seem | parataxis |
| 11 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 sing | csubj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 bird | det |
| 13 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 looking | obj |
| 14 | as | as | ADP | _ | 15 that | case |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 looking | obl |
| 16 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 sing | aux |
| 17 | sing | sing | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 common | parataxis |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 seem | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 seem | punct |
| 20 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Lord | det |
| 22 | First | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 23 Lord | amod |
| 23 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 said | nsubj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not seem in a quote | present · do-support | It | possible property | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | look in a quote | gerund | a bird | as that | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme bird=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | sing speech: express in a quote | can | looking | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | the First Lord | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=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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