The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 10, sentence 102
With a smile she held out her hand to the Caliph, and asked: “Do you not recognize your screech owl?”
Who acts: rapture, you · What happens: hold out, ask, not recognize · To what, where: hand, screech owl · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rapture, you), 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 3 smile | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 smile | det |
| 3 | smile | smile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 held | obl |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 held | nsubj |
| 5 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 5 held | compound:prt |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 hand | nmod:poss |
| 8 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 held | obj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 Caliph | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Caliph | det |
| 11 | Caliph | Caliph | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 held | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 asked | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 asked | cc |
| 14 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 held | conj |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 20 recognize | punct |
| 16 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 recognize | punct |
| 17 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 recognize | aux |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 recognize | nsubj |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 recognize | advmod |
| 20 | recognize | recognize | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 asked | ccomp |
| 21 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 owl | nmod:poss |
| 22 | screech | screech | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 owl | compound |
| 23 | owl | owl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 recognize | obj |
| 24 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 20 recognize | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 recognize | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold out | past | rapture | rapture's hand | with a smile; to the Caliph | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme | |||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | rapture not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | not recognize in a quote | present · do-support | you | your screech owl | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer owl=Stimulus |
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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