The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 1, sentence 180
He said that one knew just what to expect from the artificial bird, but the real one would sing the most unusual tunes.
Who acts: bandmaster, one, real one · What happens: say, know, expect, sing · To what, where: unusual tunes · 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 (bandmaster, one, real one), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 said | nsubj |
| 2 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 5 knew | mark |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 knew | nsubj |
| 5 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 said | ccomp |
| 6 | just | just | ADV | _ | 7 what | advmod |
| 7 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 9 expect | obj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 expect | mark |
| 9 | expect | expect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 knew | ccomp |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 bird | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 bird | det |
| 12 | artificial | artificial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 bird | amod |
| 13 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 expect | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 sing | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 sing | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 one | det |
| 17 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 one | amod |
| 18 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 sing | nsubj |
| 19 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 sing | aux |
| 20 | sing | sing | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 said | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 tunes | det |
| 22 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 23 unusual | advmod |
| 23 | unusual | unusual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 tunes | amod |
| 24 | tunes | tune | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 sing | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | bandmaster | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | know | past | one | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | expect | to-infinitive | from the artificial bird; what obj | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme | |||||
| 4 | sing speech: express | would | the real one | the unusual tunes | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tune=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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