The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 10, sentence 67
They tell each other all about their evil deeds, and possibly the magic word which you have forgotten may be mentioned.”
Who acts: rooms · What happens: tell, forget, mention · To what, where: each, magic word · 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 (rooms), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 tell | nsubj |
| 2 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 2 tell | obj |
| 4 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 each | fixed |
| 5 | all | all | ADV | _ | 9 deeds | advmod |
| 6 | about | about | ADP | _ | 9 deeds | case |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 deeds | nmod:poss |
| 8 | evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 deeds | amod |
| 9 | deeds | deed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 tell | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 mentioned | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 mentioned | cc |
| 12 | possibly | possibly | ADV | _ | 22 mentioned | advmod |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 word | det |
| 14 | magic | magic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 word | compound |
| 15 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 mentioned | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 forgotten | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 forgotten | nsubj |
| 18 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 forgotten | aux |
| 19 | forgotten | forget | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 word | acl:relcl |
| 20 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 mentioned | aux |
| 21 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 mentioned | aux:pass |
| 22 | mentioned | mention | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 tell | advcl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 tell | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | present | rooms = room | each | about rooms's evil deeds | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent each=Recipient about deed=Topic | |||
| 2 | forget | present · perfect · passive | the magic word | you nsubj | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | mention speech: other | may · passive | the magic word | possibly property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic |
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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