The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 1, sentence 179
But they all said that the bird sent by the Japanese ruler was the better of the two, and especially did the bandmaster praise it.
Who acts: BIRDS, bird, bandmaster · What happens: say, send, be, do, praise · To what, where: bird, window · 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 (BIRDS, bird, bandmaster), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 said | cc |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 said | nsubj |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 said | advmod |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 better | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 bird | det |
| 7 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 better | nsubj |
| 8 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 bird | acl |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 ruler | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 ruler | det |
| 11 | Japanese | Japanese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 ruler | amod |
| 12 | ruler | ruler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sent | obl:agent |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 better | cop |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 better | det |
| 15 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 said | ccomp |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 two | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 two | det |
| 18 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 better | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 did | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 did | cc |
| 21 | especially | especially | ADV | _ | 22 did | advmod |
| 22 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | conj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 bandmaster | det |
| 24 | bandmaster | bandmaster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 praise | nsubj |
| 25 | praise | praise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 did | parataxis |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 praise | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | BIRDS = bird | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | send | participle | the bird not said here | the Japanese ruler obl:agent | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is | past | the bird | of the two; good property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | do | past | BIRDS = bird not said here | especially property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | praise | infinitive | the bandmaster | window | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
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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