The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 10, sentence 45
The screech owl begged him to relate it, and the Caliph accordingly told him what we already know.
Who acts: screech owl, Caliph, we · What happens: beg, relate, tell, know · To what, where: hope, 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 (screech owl, Caliph, we), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 owl | det |
| 2 | screech | screech | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 owl | compound |
| 3 | owl | owl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 begged | nsubj |
| 4 | begged | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 begged | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 relate | mark |
| 7 | relate | relate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 begged | xcomp |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 relate | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 told | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 told | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Caliph | det |
| 12 | Caliph | Caliph | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 told | nsubj |
| 13 | accordingly | accordingly | ADV | _ | 14 told | advmod |
| 14 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 begged | conj |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 told | iobj |
| 16 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 19 know | obj |
| 17 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 know | nsubj |
| 18 | already | already | ADV | _ | 19 know | advmod |
| 19 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 told | ccomp |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 begged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beg speech: request | past | the screech owl | hope | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | relate not said to happen | to-infinitive | the screech owl not said here | owl | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | past | the Caliph | hope | accordingly property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 4 | know | present | we | what obj | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer what=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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