The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 1, sentence 171
They sang together, but it did not sound well, for the real Nightingale sang her own song, and the clock-work bird sang waltzes.
Who acts: BIRDS, title, real Nightingale, work bird, China · What happens: sing, not sound · To what, where: own song, waltzes
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 (BIRDS, title, real Nightingale, work bird), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 sang | nsubj |
| 2 | sang | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | together | together | ADV | _ | 2 sang | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 sound | punct |
| 5 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 sound | cc |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 sound | nsubj |
| 7 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 sound | aux |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 sound | advmod |
| 9 | sound | sound | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 sang | parataxis |
| 10 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 sound | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 sang | punct |
| 12 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 16 sang | mark |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Nightingale | det |
| 14 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 Nightingale | amod |
| 15 | Nightingale | Nightingale | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 sang | nsubj |
| 16 | sang | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 sound | conj |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 song | nmod:poss |
| 18 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 song | amod |
| 19 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sang | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 sang | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 sang | cc |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 bird | det |
| 23 | clock | clock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 work | compound |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 clock | punct |
| 25 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 bird | compound |
| 26 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 sang | nsubj |
| 27 | sang | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 sang | conj |
| 28 | waltzes | waltz | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 sang | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sang | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sing speech: express | past | BIRDS = bird | together property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not sound | past · do-support | title | well property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | sing speech: express | past | the real Nightingale | China's own song | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme | ||||
| 4 | sing speech: express | past | the work bird | waltzes | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location waltz=Theme | ||||
| 5 | sing | China | nom song «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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