The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 1, sentence 147
The Nightingale, thinking the First Lord was the Emperor, said, “Shall I sing again for your Majesty?”
Who acts: Nightingale, First Lord · What happens: think, be, say, sing · To what, where: Emperor · 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 (Nightingale, 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 | 2 Nightingale | det |
| 2 | Nightingale | Nightingale | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 said | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 thinking | punct |
| 4 | thinking | think | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 Nightingale | acl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Lord | det |
| 6 | First | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 7 Lord | amod |
| 7 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Emperor | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 Emperor | cop |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Emperor | det |
| 10 | Emperor | Emperor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 thinking | ccomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Nightingale | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 sing | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 sing | punct |
| 15 | Shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 sing | aux |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 sing | nsubj |
| 17 | sing | sing | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 said | ccomp |
| 18 | again | again | ADV | _ | 17 sing | advmod |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 Majesty | case |
| 20 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 Majesty | nmod:poss |
| 21 | Majesty | majesty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 sing | obl |
| 22 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 17 sing | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 sing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | gerund | the Nightingale not said here | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | the First Lord | the Emperor | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: ask | past | the Nightingale | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | sing speech: express in a quote | shall | the Nightingale = nightingale | again | for your Majesty | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for majesty=Recipient |
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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