The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 10, sentence 76
“Indeed!” said the Vizier; “so that when I go home my wife may scratch my eyes out!
Who acts: Vizier · What happens: say, go, scratch out · To what, where: wife, eyes · 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 (Vizier), 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 | _ | 2 Indeed | punct |
| 2 | Indeed | indeed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 said | ccomp |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Indeed | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Indeed | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Vizier | det |
| 7 | Vizier | Vizier | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 scratch | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 scratch | punct |
| 10 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 14 go | mark |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 so | fixed |
| 12 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 go | advmod |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 go | nsubj |
| 14 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 scratch | advcl |
| 15 | home | home | ADV | _ | 14 go | advmod |
| 16 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 wife | nmod:poss |
| 17 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 go | obj |
| 18 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 scratch | aux |
| 19 | scratch | scratch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | conj |
| 20 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 21 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 scratch | obj |
| 22 | out | out | ADV | _ | 19 scratch | advmod |
| 23 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: express | past | the Vizier | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | go in a quote | present | the Vizier = vizier | my wife | home property | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wife=Theme | |||
| 3 | scratch out in a quote | may | the Vizier not said here | my eyes | out property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Theme |
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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