The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 11, sentence 32
The crier replied, “Sir, you are not the only person that takes me for a madman on account of this tube; you shall judge yourself whether I am or not, when I have told you its peculiar power.
Who acts: crier, you, only person · What happens: reply, not be, take, judge, tell, account · To what, where: Sir, only person, crier, account, yourself, peculiar power · 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, you, only person), 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 crier | det |
| 2 | crier | crier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 replied | nsubj |
| 3 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Sir | punct |
| 5 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 Sir | punct |
| 6 | Sir | sir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 replied | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 person | punct |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 person | nsubj |
| 9 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 person | cop |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 person | advmod |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 person | det |
| 12 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 person | amod |
| 13 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Sir | appos |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 takes | nsubj |
| 15 | takes | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 person | acl:relcl |
| 16 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 takes | obj |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 madman | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 madman | det |
| 19 | madman | madman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 takes | obl |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 account | case |
| 21 | account | account | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 takes | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 tube | case |
| 23 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 24 tube | det |
| 24 | tube | tube | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 account | nmod |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 judge | punct |
| 26 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 28 judge | nsubj |
| 27 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 judge | aux |
| 28 | judge | judge | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 replied | parataxis |
| 29 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 28 judge | obj |
| 30 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 32 am | mark |
| 31 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 32 am | nsubj |
| 32 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 judge | advcl |
| 33 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 34 not | cc |
| 34 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 32 am | conj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 told | punct |
| 36 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 39 told | mark |
| 37 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 39 told | nsubj |
| 38 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 39 told | aux |
| 39 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 28 judge | parataxis |
| 40 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 39 told | iobj |
| 41 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 43 power | nmod:poss |
| 42 | peculiar | peculiar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 power | compound |
| 43 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 told | obj |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | the crier | Sir | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not is a in a quote | present | you | the only person | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | take in a quote | present | the only person | the crier = crier | account of this tube | for a madman | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme on account=Destination | ||
| 4 | judge in a quote | shall | you | yourself | vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Agent yourself=Value | ||||
| 5 | tell speech: assert in a quote | present · perfect | the crier = crier | tube's peculiar power | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient power=Topic | |||
| 6 | account in a quote | this tube | nom account «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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