The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 1, sentence 145
The First Lord said, “I have never heard anything so beautiful before.
Who acts: First Lord · What happens: say, not hear · To what, where: anything · 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 | 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 | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 heard | punct |
| 6 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 heard | punct |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 heard | nsubj |
| 8 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 heard | aux |
| 9 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 10 heard | advmod |
| 10 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 said | conj |
| 11 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 10 heard | obj |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 beautiful | advmod |
| 13 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 heard | xcomp |
| 14 | before | before | ADV | _ | 10 heard | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the First Lord | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not hear in a quote | present · perfect | the First Lord = lord | anything | beautiful, before property | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer anything=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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