The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 12, sentence 35
“Certainly,” said he to himself, “neither I nor any man living could shoot an arrow so far.
Who acts: Prince, man · What happens: say, live, shoot · To what, where: Prince, arrow · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, man), 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 | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 2 | Certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 5 said | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Certainly | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Certainly | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 said | nsubj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 himself | case |
| 8 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 5 said | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 shoot | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 shoot | punct |
| 11 | neither | neither | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 12 I | cc:preconj |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 shoot | nsubj |
| 13 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 15 man | cc |
| 14 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 man | det |
| 15 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 I | conj |
| 16 | living | live | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 man | acl |
| 17 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 shoot | aux |
| 18 | shoot | shoot | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | conj |
| 19 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 arrow | det |
| 20 | arrow | arrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 shoot | obj |
| 21 | so | so | ADV | _ | 22 far | advmod |
| 22 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 18 shoot | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Prince | Prince | certainly property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient | |||
| 2 | live in a quote | gerund | any man not said here | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | shoot in a quote | could | Prince | a arrow | far property | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arrow=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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