The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 10, sentence 47
When the Caliph had ended, the owl thanked him and said: “You must hear my story, and own that I am no less unfortunate than yourselves.
Who acts: Caliph, owl, You · What happens: end, thank, say, hear, be · To what, where: Caliph, story · 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 (Caliph, owl, 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 5 ended | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Caliph | det |
| 3 | Caliph | Caliph | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 ended | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 ended | aux |
| 5 | ended | end | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 thanked | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 ended | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 owl | det |
| 8 | owl | owl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 thanked | nsubj |
| 9 | thanked | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 thanked | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 said | cc |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 thanked | conj |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 17 hear | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 hear | punct |
| 15 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 hear | nsubj |
| 16 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 hear | aux |
| 17 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 said | ccomp |
| 18 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 story | nmod:poss |
| 19 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 hear | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 own | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 own | cc |
| 22 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 hear | parataxis |
| 23 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 28 unfortunate | mark |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 unfortunate | nsubj |
| 25 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 unfortunate | cop |
| 26 | no | no | ADV | _ | 27 less | advmod |
| 27 | less | less | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 28 unfortunate | advmod |
| 28 | unfortunate | unfortunate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 own | advcl |
| 29 | than | than | ADP | _ | 30 yourselves | case |
| 30 | yourselves | yourselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 28 unfortunate | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 thanked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | end | past · perfect | the Caliph | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | thank speech: thank | past | the owl | Caliph | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the owl not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | hear in a quote | must | You | my story | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer story=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | is in a quote | present | the owl = owl | than yourselves; less, unfortunate property | tree rules |
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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