The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 11, sentence 56
I will tell you that the rarity which I have brought from the kingdom of Bisnagar is the carpet on which I sit.
Who acts: I, rarity · What happens: tell, bring, be, sit · To what, where: you, rarity, kingdom, carpet · 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 (I, rarity), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 tell | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 tell | aux |
| 3 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 tell | iobj |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 carpet | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 rarity | det |
| 7 | rarity | rarity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 carpet | nsubj |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 brought | nsubj |
| 10 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 brought | aux |
| 11 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 rarity | acl:relcl |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 kingdom | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 kingdom | det |
| 14 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 brought | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Bisnagar | case |
| 16 | Bisnagar | Bisnagar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 kingdom | nmod |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 carpet | cop |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 carpet | det |
| 19 | carpet | carpet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tell | ccomp |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 which | case |
| 21 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 sit | obl |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 sit | nsubj |
| 23 | sit | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 carpet | acl:relcl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | future | I | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | bring | present · perfect · passive | the rarity | the kingdom of Bisnagar | I nsubj | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: subject=Theme from kingdom=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | is a | present | the rarity | the carpet | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | sit | present | I | the carpet | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on which=Location |
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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