The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 1, sentence 142
“It must be that she has lost her brilliant plumage because there are so many distinguished people here.”
Who acts: many distinguished people · What happens: lose, be · To what, where: deal
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 (many distinguished people), 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 | _ | 8 lost | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 lost | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 lost | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 lost | aux:pass |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 lost | mark |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 lost | nsubj |
| 7 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 lost | aux |
| 8 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 plumage | nmod:poss |
| 10 | brilliant | brilliant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 plumage | amod |
| 11 | plumage | plumage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lost | obj |
| 12 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 14 are | mark |
| 13 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 14 are | expl |
| 14 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 lost | advcl |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 many | advmod |
| 16 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 people | amod |
| 17 | distinguished | distinguished | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 people | amod |
| 18 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 are | nsubj |
| 19 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 are | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 lost | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 lost | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose in a quote | must · perfect · passive | deal | Hark nsubj; Hark's brilliant plumage obj | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | does in a quote | present | many distinguished people | here; 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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