The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 1, sentence 176
It sang the same piece many times without becoming tired, and then the Emperor thought that the real Nightingale should sing again.
Who acts: title, Emperor, real Nightingale · What happens: sing, become, think · To what, where: same piece · 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 (title, Emperor, real Nightingale), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 sang | nsubj |
| 2 | sang | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 piece | det |
| 4 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 piece | amod |
| 5 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sang | obj |
| 6 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 times | amod |
| 7 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 sang | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 9 becoming | mark |
| 9 | becoming | become | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 sang | advcl |
| 10 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 becoming | xcomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 thought | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 thought | cc |
| 13 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 thought | advmod |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Emperor | det |
| 15 | Emperor | Emperor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 thought | nsubj |
| 16 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 sang | conj |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 sing | mark |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Nightingale | det |
| 19 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 Nightingale | amod |
| 20 | Nightingale | Nightingale | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 sing | nsubj |
| 21 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 sing | aux |
| 22 | sing | sing | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 thought | ccomp |
| 23 | again | again | ADV | _ | 22 sing | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sang | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sing speech: express | past | title | the same piece | time | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location piece=Theme | |||
| 2 | become | gerund | title not said here | tired property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | think speech: other | past | the Emperor | then | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 4 | sing speech: express | should | the real Nightingale | again | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location |
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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