The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 11, sentence 21
“If the carpet,” said he to the crier, “has the virtue you attribute to it, I shall not think forty purses too much.”
Who acts: crier, virtue · What happens: say, have, attribute, not think · To what, where: crier, carpet, forty purses · 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 (crier, virtue), 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 | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 carpet | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 carpet | det |
| 4 | carpet | carpet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 carpet | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 carpet | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 said | nsubj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 crier | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 crier | det |
| 11 | crier | crier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 has | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 has | punct |
| 14 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | ccomp |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 virtue | det |
| 16 | virtue | virtue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 attribute | nsubj |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 attribute | nsubj |
| 18 | attribute | attribute | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 has | xcomp |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 it | case |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 attribute | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 think | punct |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 think | nsubj |
| 23 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 think | aux |
| 24 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 think | advmod |
| 25 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 attribute | conj |
| 26 | forty | forty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 27 purses | nummod |
| 27 | purses | purse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 think | obj |
| 28 | too | too | ADV | _ | 29 much | advmod |
| 29 | much | much | ADV | _ | 25 think | advmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 has | punct |
| 31 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 has | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | crier | the crier | the carpet advcl | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to crier=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | have in a quote | present | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | attribute in a quote | infinitive | the virtue | carpet | you nsubj | tree rules | |||
| 4 | not think speech: other in a quote | shall | crier | forty purses | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot purse=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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