The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 10, sentence 22
“Oh, my Lord!” gasped the Vizier, after a couple of hours, “I can go on no longer; you really fly too quick for me.
Who acts: Lord, Caliph Chasid, you · What happens: gasp, go, fly · To what, where: Vizier
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 (Lord, Caliph Chasid, 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 gasped | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 5 Lord | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 Lord | nmod:poss |
| 5 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 gasped | nsubj |
| 6 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 Lord | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 Lord | punct |
| 8 | gasped | gasp | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Vizier | det |
| 10 | Vizier | Vizier | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 gasped | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 couple | punct |
| 12 | after | after | ADP | _ | 14 couple | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 couple | det |
| 14 | couple | couple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 gasped | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 hours | case |
| 16 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 couple | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 go | punct |
| 18 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 go | punct |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 go | nsubj |
| 20 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 go | aux |
| 21 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 gasped | conj |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 longer | case |
| 23 | no | no | ADV | _ | 24 longer | advmod |
| 24 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 21 go | obl |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 fly | punct |
| 26 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 28 fly | nsubj |
| 27 | really | really | ADV | _ | 28 fly | advmod |
| 28 | fly | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 gasped | conj |
| 29 | too | too | ADV | _ | 30 quick | advmod |
| 30 | quick | quick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 fly | advmod |
| 31 | for | for | ADP | _ | 32 me | case |
| 32 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 quick | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 gasped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gasp | past | my Lord | the Vizier | after a couple of hours | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vizier=Topic | |||
| 2 | go in a quote | can | the Caliph Chasid = chasid | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on long=Location | |||||
| 3 | fly in a quote | present | you | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=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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