The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 10, sentence 60
“If I am not much mistaken,” said he, “there is some mysterious connection between our misfortunes, but how to find the key to the riddle is the question.”
Who acts: Caliph, mysterious connection, key · What happens: not be, say, be, find · To what, where: question · 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, mysterious connection, key), 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 | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 7 mistaken | mark |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 mistaken | nsubj |
| 4 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 mistaken | cop |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 mistaken | advmod |
| 6 | much | much | ADV | _ | 7 mistaken | advmod |
| 7 | mistaken | mistaken | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 said | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 mistaken | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 mistaken | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 said | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 is | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 is | punct |
| 14 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 15 is | expl |
| 15 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | conj |
| 16 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 18 connection | det |
| 17 | mysterious | mysterious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 connection | amod |
| 18 | connection | connection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 is | nsubj |
| 19 | between | between | ADP | _ | 21 misfortunes | case |
| 20 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 misfortunes | nmod:poss |
| 21 | misfortunes | misfortune | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 connection | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 find | punct |
| 23 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 find | cc |
| 24 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 26 find | advmod |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 find | mark |
| 26 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | conj |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 key | det |
| 28 | key | key | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 question | nsubj |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 riddle | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 riddle | det |
| 31 | riddle | riddle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 key | nmod |
| 32 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 question | cop |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 question | det |
| 34 | question | question | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 find | ccomp |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 36 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | Caliph | mistaken property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Caliph | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | be in a quote | present | some mysterious connection between our misfortunes | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | find in a quote | to-infinitive | Caliph not said here | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is a in a quote | present | the key to the riddle | the question | 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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