The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 1, sentence 170
“How wonderful!” said everyone, and the man who had brought the clock-work bird was given the title of “Bringer of the Imperial First Nightingale.”
Who acts: everyone · What happens: say, bring, give, title · To what, where: man, Bringer · 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 (everyone), 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 | _ | 3 wonderful | punct |
| 2 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 wonderful | advmod |
| 3 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 wonderful | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 wonderful | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 wonderful | parataxis |
| 7 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 6 said | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 given | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 given | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 man | det |
| 11 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 given | nsubj |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 brought | aux |
| 14 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 man | acl:relcl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 bird | det |
| 16 | clock | clock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 work | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 clock | punct |
| 18 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 bird | compound |
| 19 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 brought | obj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 given | aux:pass |
| 21 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 wonderful | advcl |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 title | det |
| 23 | title | title | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 given | obj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 Bringer | case |
| 25 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 Bringer | punct |
| 26 | Bringer | bringer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 title | nmod |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 Nightingale | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 Nightingale | det |
| 29 | Imperial | Imperial | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 First | compound |
| 30 | First | First | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 31 Nightingale | amod |
| 31 | Nightingale | Nightingale | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Bringer | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wonderful | punct |
| 33 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 wonderful | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | everyone | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | bring | past · perfect · passive | the man | the work bird obj | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Destination bird=Theme | ||||
| 3 | give | past · passive | the man | the title of Bringer of the First Nightingale obj | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient title=Theme | ||||
| 5 | title | Bringer of the First Nightingale | nom title «communication transitive»: of=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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