The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 11, sentence 50
“Come sir,” said the crier to Prince Ahmed, “let us go and make the experiment, and the apple shall be yours.”
Who acts: crier, us, apple · What happens: come, say, let, go, make, be · To what, where: sir, us, experiment, yours · 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, us, apple), 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 Come | punct |
| 2 | Come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | ccomp |
| 3 | sir | sir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Come | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Come | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Come | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 crier | det |
| 8 | crier | crier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | obj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 Ahmed | case |
| 10 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Ahmed | compound |
| 11 | Ahmed | Ahmed | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 crier | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 let | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 let | punct |
| 14 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | ccomp |
| 15 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 let | obj |
| 16 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 let | xcomp |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 make | cc |
| 18 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 go | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 experiment | det |
| 20 | experiment | experiment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 make | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 yours | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 yours | cc |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 apple | det |
| 24 | apple | apple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 yours | nsubj |
| 25 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 yours | aux |
| 26 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 27 yours | cop |
| 27 | yours | your | PRON | Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 let | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 let | punct |
| 29 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come in a quote | infinitive | sir | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location sir=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the crier | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | let in a quote | infinitive | us | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | go in a quote | infinitive | us not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | make in a quote | infinitive | us not said here | the experiment | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset experiment=Product | ||||
| 6 | is a in a quote | shall | the apple | yours | 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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