The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 10, sentence 78
“That’s just where it is,” sighed the Caliph, whose wings drooped in a dejected manner; “how do I know she is young and lovely?
Who acts: That, Vizier, Princess · What happens: be, sigh, droop, deject, know · To what, where: Caliph, wings, dejected manner · 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 (That, Vizier, Princess), 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 sighed | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 where | nsubj |
| 3 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 where | cop |
| 4 | just | just | ADV | _ | 5 where | advmod |
| 5 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 10 sighed | advmod |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 is | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 where | cop |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 is | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 where | punct |
| 10 | sighed | sigh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Caliph | det |
| 12 | Caliph | Caliph | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 sighed | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 wings | punct |
| 14 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 15 wings | nmod:poss |
| 15 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 Caliph | appos |
| 16 | drooped | droop | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 wings | acl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 manner | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 manner | det |
| 19 | dejected | deject | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 manner | amod |
| 20 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 drooped | obl |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 know | punct |
| 22 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 know | punct |
| 23 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 26 know | advmod |
| 24 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 know | aux |
| 25 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 know | nsubj |
| 26 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 sighed | conj |
| 27 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 young | nsubj |
| 28 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 young | cop |
| 29 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 know | ccomp |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 lovely | cc |
| 31 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 young | conj |
| 32 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 10 sighed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | That | where property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | sigh | past | the Caliph | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent caliph=Topic | |||||
| 3 | droop | participle | the Caliph's wings not said here | a dejected manner | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in manner=Location | ||||
| 4 | deject | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 5 | know in a quote | present · do-support | the Vizier = vizier | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 6 | is in a quote | present | Princess | young property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | be in a quote | Princess not said here | 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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