The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 1, sentence 169
Around its neck was a collar on which was written: “The Nightingale of the Emperor of Japan cannot be compared with that of the Emperor of China.”
Who acts: neck · What happens: be, write, not compare · To what, where: collar, Nightingale
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 (neck), 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 | Around | around | ADP | _ | 6 collar | case |
| 2 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 neck | nmod:poss |
| 3 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 collar | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 collar | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 collar | det |
| 6 | collar | collar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 written | obl |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 which | case |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 written | obl |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 written | aux:pass |
| 10 | written | write | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 written | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 compared | punct |
| 13 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Nightingale | det |
| 14 | Nightingale | Nightingale | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 compared | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 Emperor | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Emperor | det |
| 17 | Emperor | Emperor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Nightingale | nmod |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 Japan | case |
| 19 | Japan | Japan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Emperor | nmod |
| 20 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 compared | aux |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 compared | advmod |
| 22 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 compared | aux:pass |
| 23 | compared | compare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 written | conj |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 that | case |
| 25 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 compared | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 Emperor | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Emperor | det |
| 28 | Emperor | Emperor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 compared | obl |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 China | case |
| 30 | China | China | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Emperor | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 written | punct |
| 32 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 written | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | piece's neck | a collar | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | write | past · passive | which obl | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: on which=Destination | |||||
| 3 | not compare in a quote | can · passive | the Nightingale of the Emperor of Japan | with that; of the Emperor of China | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient with that=Co-Patient |
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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