The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 11, sentence 46
“Sir,” replied the crier, “the truth is known by the whole city of Samarcand.
Who acts: crier, whole city · What happens: reply, know · To what, where: truth · 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, whole city), 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 Sir | punct |
| 2 | Sir | sir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 replied | ccomp |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Sir | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Sir | punct |
| 5 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 crier | det |
| 7 | crier | crier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 replied | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 known | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 known | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 truth | det |
| 11 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 known | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 known | aux:pass |
| 13 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 replied | conj |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 city | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 city | det |
| 16 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 city | amod |
| 17 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 known | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 Samarcand | case |
| 19 | Samarcand | Samarcand | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 city | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | the crier | Sir ccomp | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | know in a quote | present · passive | the whole city of Samarcand | the truth | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer subject=Stimulus |
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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