The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 10, sentence 70
The owl paused a moment and then said: “Do not think me unkind, but I can only grant your request on one condition.”
Who acts: owl, your · What happens: pause, say, not think, grant, request · To what, where: owl, request, one condition · 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 (owl, your), 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 | 2 owl | det |
| 2 | owl | owl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 paused | nsubj |
| 3 | paused | pause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 moment | det |
| 5 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 paused | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 said | cc |
| 7 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 said | advmod |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 paused | conj |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 think | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 think | punct |
| 11 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 13 think | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 think | advmod |
| 13 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 14 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 think | obj |
| 15 | unkind | unkind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 think | xcomp |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 grant | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 grant | cc |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 grant | nsubj |
| 19 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 grant | aux |
| 20 | only | only | ADV | _ | 21 grant | advmod |
| 21 | grant | grant | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 think | conj |
| 22 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 request | nmod:poss |
| 23 | request | request | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 grant | obj |
| 24 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 condition | case |
| 25 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 26 condition | nummod |
| 26 | condition | condition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 grant | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 paused | punct |
| 28 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 paused | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pause | past | the owl | moment | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the owl not said here | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | not think speech: other in a quote | infinitive · do-support | the owl = owl | unkind property | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot i=Theme | ||||
| 4 | grant in a quote | can | the owl = owl | your request | one condition | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent request=Theme | |||
| 5 | request in a quote | your | nom request «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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