The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 10, sentence 64
“The magician who has made us both miserable,” said she, “comes once a month to these ruins.
Who acts: stork · What happens: make, say, come · To what, where: magician, ruins · 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 (stork), 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 | _ | 6 made | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 magician | det |
| 3 | magician | magician | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 made | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 made | nsubj |
| 5 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 made | aux |
| 6 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 said | ccomp |
| 7 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 made | obj |
| 8 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 miserable | advmod |
| 9 | miserable | miserable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 made | xcomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 made | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 made | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 said | nsubj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 comes | punct |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 comes | punct |
| 16 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 said | ccomp |
| 17 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 16 comes | advmod |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 month | det |
| 19 | month | month | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 once | obl:unmarked |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 ruins | case |
| 21 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 22 ruins | det |
| 22 | ruins | ruin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 comes | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make in a quote | present · perfect · passive | the magician | who nsubj; us obj; miserable property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary we=Product | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | stork | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | come in a quote | present | this ruins | once property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to ruin=Initial_Location |
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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