The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 11, sentence 20
“You have guessed right, sir,” replied the crier; “whoever sits on this piece of carpet may be transported in an instant wherever he desires to be.”
Who acts: You, crier, whoever · What happens: guess, reply, sit, transport, desire, be · To what, where: piece, instant · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, crier, whoever), 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 | _ | 4 guessed | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 guessed | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 guessed | aux |
| 4 | guessed | guess | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 24 transported | advcl |
| 5 | right | right | ADV | _ | 4 guessed | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 sir | punct |
| 7 | sir | sir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 guessed | vocative |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 replied | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 replied | punct |
| 10 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 guessed | parataxis |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 crier | det |
| 12 | crier | crier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 replied | obj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 sits | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 sits | punct |
| 15 | whoever | whoever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 sits | nsubj |
| 16 | sits | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 replied | conj |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 piece | case |
| 18 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 piece | det |
| 19 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sits | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 carpet | case |
| 21 | carpet | carpet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 piece | nmod |
| 22 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 transported | aux |
| 23 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 24 transported | aux:pass |
| 24 | transported | transport | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 instant | case |
| 26 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 instant | det |
| 27 | instant | instant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 transported | obl |
| 28 | wherever | wherever | ADV | PronType=Int | 30 desires | advmod |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 desires | nsubj |
| 30 | desires | desire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 transported | advcl |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 be | mark |
| 32 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 desires | xcomp |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 24 transported | punct |
| 34 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 transported | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | guess in a quote | present · perfect | You | sir vocative; right property | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | the crier | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | sit in a quote | present | whoever | this piece of carpet | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on piece=Location | ||||
| 4 | transport in a quote | may · passive | a instant | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» | |||||
| 5 | desire in a quote | present | crier | wherever property | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||
| 6 | be not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | crier not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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